[WBEL-devel] Re: [WBEL-users] Question about RHEL Licensing

[Rodney Holm]

I dont believe you are violating the license if you install the
unmodified, pre-packaged binaries on more than one machine.


All you would have to do with the machine after the install is
replace/modify some files on the system to be in compliance.

This would include, removing the Red Hat shadowman from the grub
boot loader page, and the wording from files like /etc/issue
and /etc/issue.net.  There are obviously a few more things that
would need to be 'scrubbed', but it could be done without
modifying the source rpms and rebuilding.


The license states:
"With the exception of certain image files identified in Section 2 below"

Note the word 'files', It does not say anything about
restricting the installation of the unmodified binary packages.


rodney



clacour@clacour.com wrote:
>>The way I understand the RHEL licensing is that you can install the
>>purchased software on as many machines as you want.  The license only
>>applies to the updates from RHN in binary form and support for the
>>registered software.
> 
> 
> As _RHEL_, no that's not true. If you take the RHEL CDs and install them
> as-is, you're violating the licence.
> 
> You can copy the software, as you pointed out, but then it's not Red Hat
> Enterprise Linux anymore, which is what Red Hat wants.
> 
> Of course, if you make a copy of the CD with legal images, you become
> legal (which is the whole point behind Whitebox).
> 
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