[WBEL-users] Redhat Legalese

Bill Davidsen davidsen@tmr.com
Sat, 14 Feb 2004 22:31:34 -0500


Joe Klemmer wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 09:12, Aaron Smith wrote:
> 
> 
>>4.) Taking number 3 a step further, couldn't I purchase a support
>>"contract" for one year for one server, get the CD's, and then install
>>the software on 15 servers?  I'd use rhn/up2date for the ONE server,
>>then either propagate those RPM's to the other ones, or simple download
>>SRPM's to build and install for the others?
> 
> 
> 	This is the only one I know the answer to.  If you have RHEL running on
> a system you must have a support "contract" for it.  You can get one set
> of ISOs and install on 15 systems but then you must buy 15 support
> instances.  You can't run RHEL on any system without support for that
> system.

Does this then imply that I can buy one set of CDs and be legal to 
install on 58 machines and only pay for the support on the machines?


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