Somehow I would have guessed that buying 1 license, installing it on dozens of systems is a violation.
IMHO the guy was wondering whether he could legally use up2date from his one license on all the other systems. This says nothing about the legality of a rebuilt system, where you build all components from free (GPL'ed) software. The guy below is just pirating, not building his own system from freely available components. But then again I'm not a lawyer, just a computer freak :) On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Lucas Albers wrote: > Some info on the legality of rebuilding as. > via rhel-3 mailing list. > > ---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- > Subject: Re: license of Red Hat enterprise products > From: "Xose Vazquez Perez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Mon, November 3, 2003 3:17 pm > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Meier Adrian wrote: > > Did you read license ? > > > We installed many servers (the same hardware) with "Red Hat Enterprise > Linux AS 2.1" and purchased only one "system entitlement". Does it > comply with Red Hat license legal requirements, when we install these > errata RPMs on every system? In theory we can install one server with > all packages and connect via up2date to the RHN, then create a YUM > repository to keep the other servers uptodate. > > Already you are breaking license conditions. If you buy 1, then you have 1 > license for 1 server. You must delete all except 1 OS. Period. > > *Don't post here any question about unlicensed products* > > If you have any doubt about RHEL license consult your local lawyer: > > http://www.redhat.com/licenses/rhel_us_2-1.html > http://www.redhat.com/about/corporate/trademark/ > http://www.linuxmafia.com/~rick/linux-info/rhas-isos > http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html > http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html > > -thanks- > > End of discussion. > > -- > > > rhel-rebuild mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hosted at the University of Innsbruck, Austria > rhel-rebuild mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hosted at the University of Innsbruck, Austria
