[WBEL-devel] Long- Thoughts on WB maintenance

[David Jao]

> You are wrong.  There is nothing saying you have to pay RH for support to
> use the software.  The only thing you are paying for is the support, not
> the "right" to use the software.  I would ask you to read the license
> agreement again.

My reading of the license agreement is actually that you *do* have to
pay redhat for support on every machine that you have installed RHEL. If
you are not a RHEL customer then this of course does not affect you. But
if you are a RHEL customer then your service agreement requires you to
pay for support for each installation.

That is to say, I do not believe RHEL customers have the option of using
additional copies of RHEL without paying for the support.

Quoting from http://www.redhat.com/licenses/rhel_us_3.html :

A. GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS ... The term "Installed Systems" means
the number of Systems on which Customer installs the Software....
   
4. REPORTING AND AUDIT. If Customer wishes to increase the number of
Installed System, then Customer will purchase from Red Hat additional
Services for each additional Installed System....

-David