[ILUG] Redhat taking all my money

[Darren Burnett]

On Friday 27 August 2004 21:00, Paul Jakma wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, Darren Burnett wrote:
> > our servers from AS to ES.  We are buying the 15 lics which are
> > valid for 1 year.
>
> They're not "licences", read the agreement very carefully. They're a
> support&subscription agreement.
>
> You can quite easily run RH EL/AS/whatever without paying. Just RH
> wont support you.
>
> Now, presuming the only thing Oracle care about is that you run
> RH/whatever, ie that they care about the platform, not whether you're
> paid up to RedHat, that might be good enough for you.
>
> regards,

  This is where it seems to be a very grey area, at least for me.  So can I 
install a copy of RH AS as many times as I want?  Can I give others the CD to 
install.  Can I manually update RPMs? all without RedHat receiving a euro. 
(sorry the above sounds like an infomercial)

 This is how I thought it was, and that only if I wanted support from redhat 
and the ability to use up2date I had to pay.

  Does anybody have a good link to some layman documents as to what I am 
entitled to with RH AS.  Maybe ...RedHats slant on GPL for Dummies...


Thanks