On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 15:05:15 -0500 (EST) "William Hooper" <whooperhsd3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > This discussion should really be on the Taroon-list (and already has > been discussed). Ok, I knew this was OT (even said that on my first post ;)). I will start it over there. > Andre Costa said: > > One possible scenario is, despite losing RHN, still being able to > > maintain the system through public RHEL SRPM sites -- which should > > be ok for usual package updates, but could be a problem for major > > version upgrades (like RHEL 3.0 to RHEL3.x or 4.0). > > You pay for (and the service agreement is for) the support. After > your support runs out you are free to do what you want with the > software as long as you don't a) violate Red Hat's Trademarks or b) > violate the license of the software package (be it GPL, BSD, Apache, > etc.). No problems so far. > This plan also relies on RH to continue providing their software as > SRPMs for free on their mirrors. I'm not saying that they will change > their mind, but you should understand that they are under no > obligation to do this. Right. That would be a problem, as I said on my previous post, because it would probably force the reinstallation of the server. > A more realistic plan would look at the effort > required to backport fixes or upgrade the software as the maintainers > release new versions. This is what I was looking (hoping) for: a somewhat painless process of "turning RHEL into vanilla Linux" (if necessary, that is -- it's not that this is necessarily going to happen). Does such a thing exist? Best, Andre PS: I will restart this thread on taroon-list. -- Andre Oliveira da Costa
