On Tue, 25 Mar 2003 20:10:44 +0100, you wrote:

>The licence does not restrict your rights in distributing, copying
>or modifying the GNU GPL'ed software.
>
>However, certain actions can violate your RHEL licence agreement.
>One of them is installing and running RHEL products on machines
>without a subscription. Else you could cheat on Red Hat and use
>software and support services with one subscription for multiple
>systems.

A significant portion of RHEL is GPL (kernel, gcc, glibc, Gnome, KDE,
etc.).  The GPL stipulates that no restrictions can be placed on the
further distribution of a GPL licensed product beyond the GPL itself.

Therefore the RHEL license agreement cannot prevent you from running
the GPL'd parts of the Enterprise products on other machines (though
of course you cannot expect support on those additional machines).

Of course the interesting part is all the non-GPL parts that make up
Linux (like XFree, Python).  Those license agreements may or may not
allow further restrictions that could make RHEL license enforceable on
the product as a whole.



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