Hello, On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 08:10:44PM +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote: > The licence does not restrict your rights in distributing, copying > or modifying the GNU GPL'ed software. > > However, certain actions can violate your RHEL licence agreement. > One of them is installing and running RHEL products on machines > without a subscription. Else you could cheat on Red Hat and use > software and support services with one subscription for multiple > systems. /me is in a maze of twisty little packages, all different. * The kernel and quite a few other packages are licensed under GPL. * Customer buys one subscription of RHEL. * Customer gets the kernel package and others, licensed under GPL. * Customer is allowed by GPL to install kernel and other packages on a different machine under GPL, Red Hat can not revoke this. Indeed, the customer is allowed to install and *redistribute* his RHEL image as granted by the EULA: (modulo JVM) > Red Hat Enterprise Linux itself is a collective work under U.S. > Copyright Law. Subject to the trademark use limitations set forth > below, Red Hat grants Customer a license in this collective work > pursuant to the GNU General Public License. * If the customer installs RHEL on a different computer, it constitues a breach of the Subscription Agreement. So, are these conclusions correct? * Customer is allowed to install RHEL on any number of machines he wants, but this constitutes a breach of Service agreement and results in paying a penalty if the customer is audited. * Customer is allowed to redistribute RHEL without any "consequences". * Customer is allowed to install and use RHEL without ever accepting the Subscription Agreement, assuming he can get a copy. Thanks. Mirek -- Phoebe-list mailing list Phoebe-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/phoebe-list