On Tuesday 22 Jul 2008, Smruti wrote: > 1. Is it legal for someone to distribute a Redhat Enterprise Linux > copy that he bought from Redhat without any Redhat agreement or > restrictions? If yes, than again I get back to my old question which > is how will he get the distro.
IANAL, but it's legal to re-distribute RHEL since RH relies on trademark rather than copyright to protect its operating systems. So you can re-distribute it, but your recipient can't use it since s/he would be violating Red Hat's trademarks by doing so. Perhaps someone from RH on this list could give us accurate information? > 2. Is it legal for someone from Redhat(assuming he has the access to > the distro) to distribute it for free without any Redhat agreement or > restrictions(in short as FOSS) RH offers a 30-day evaluation account, which allows you to download RHEL, as far as I remember, so you can use RHEL legally for 30 days at least. Again, best if someone from RH confirms/denies -- I am neither a lawyer nor speaking for RH. In any case, at the moment RHEL isn't a viable option for a home user who doesn't want to pay for Linux. Regards, -- Raju -- Raj Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance & Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
