Gene C. said: > On Friday 07 November 2003 15:12, William Hooper wrote: >> Read the RHEL License again. All it says is that if you have more >> machines with RHEL than entitlements, Red Hat has the right to cancel >> your >> support. Period. >> >> The catch comes in because the reason to buy RHEL is for the support. >> If >> it is important enough to need support for 5 years, it is important >> enough >> to pay for it. > > IMNAL and I do not work for Red Hat. However, it is MY understanding that > you > cannot use the binary rpms created by RedHat on systems other than > licensed > one. However, you can take the SRPMS which Red Hat has made available for > download (both original and errata), build binary rpms yourself and then > use > those binaries on unlicensed systems. I have yet to be convinced this is true for GPL binaries. Other licenses (BSD as an example) on the other hand it MAY be true for. -- William Hooper
