On Tue, 2004-01-27 at 12:46, Bryan Murdock wrote: > This is going to sound really silly, but am I just buying a license to > the RedHat trademarks on the RHEL CDs? Is it a license to only install > it on one machine? The reason I ask is I'm still not clear on their > policy, or what substantial thing I am trading my money for. I'm still > not clear on whether I'm allowed to install RHEL on every machine I own, > or even my friends machines as long as I don't "redistribute" the CDs > with the trademarks on them.
They do it through a convoluted license agreement, but effectively it says that you can only install it on machines for which you have purchased a license from them. It's a little more complicated than that, though, in how it words it (since it can't specifically say that in the license agreement because of the GPL). The White Box Linux project recompiles the source RPMs from RHEL and removes all trademarks from them. So you're getting pretty much the same thing as RHEL (and binary compatible with it) without paying RedHat. And you can do what you want with it. Steve ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
