[WBEL-devel] Re: How to get the RHEL Errata?

[David Lerner]

Willian,

You are reading a fragment of the Red Hat Service Agreement. The 
restriction only applies to machines running software that carries the 
Red Hat brand. There is no requirement for paying a subscription for 
machines that have White Box Linux installed. Red Hat has tried very 
hard to be legal with respect to the GPL. They  are not likely to take a 
position that would limit a user's rights to distribute both source and 
binary for any GPL package.

Dave

William Hooper wrote:
> Vlad Mazek  said:
> 
>>Exactly. And for about $800 for a single subscription I can download the
>>SRPMS, rebuild the whole OS and roll it out to my 70 something servers and
>>be done.
> 
> 
> The license agreement for the RHN account, on the other hand, does state
> that you need an account for every machine.  You do run the risk of
> violating that and voiding the RHN account (and what ever other penalties
> are involved).  Not being able to use the GPLed software is just a penalty
> that can't be involved.
> 
> --
> William Hooper