2008/4/27 Afthab Ellath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Dear Anivar, > > Sorry in advance for using your time for the following... I thought of > sending a personal mail to you, but then found it may be relevant in this > group... > > We have been using Redhat Enterprise Linux as our server operating system, > since 2001, migrating from Windows NT and 2000... At present we have around > 200 servers running our database software application... Until now we have > been using software patches downloaded from Redhat using a single license > agreement with them to patch all our systems... Redhat EULA agreement is > still unclear to us and we are not quite sure how the Redhat can make the > restrictions as detailed below from a discussion group by using all those > GPLed software and making a distribution... If this is true we have to > migrate them to some other free distributions... Our main problem is on many > of those servers we have Oracle databases (another Microsoft), and they > certify their software only on corporate Linux distributions only...
(as usual IANAL), Red Hat owns the copyright to the collection of software. You can think of this as an collection of poems in public domain - even though each individual poem is in public domain the collection has a copyright. In the same way you cannot use the collection violating the EULA, but individual components are still Swathanthram and you can reassemble it like CentOS does. The catch is you can longer use the Red Hat name or logos with it. The factor that differentiates RHEL from CentOS is the certification by Software and Hardware vendors. If you care about it then pay or be ready to support yourself. So your choices 1) Go and purchase service contracts for each of the systems - that means you can run Oracle with support (from my understanding of what you have provided below about the Red Hat EULA) 2) Go for CentOS - which is exactly the same copy of RHEL but without the support. Check with Oracle if they can support it, which I doubt. 3) or go for Oracle's version of RHEL - which is similar to CentOS but with addition of Oracle support and lower cost than Red Hat support. But I would rather pay Red Hat because they are doing all the heavy work. I hope things are a bit clearer now. Cheers Praveen > > Thanks > Afthab > > > On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 12:54:25PM +0530, Ritesh Agarwal wrote: > > Can we install single copy of RHEL v3.0 in more than one server.Is > > it legal ? > > > The subscription agreement states that you must have a valid > subscription for *all* systems that are running Red Hat Enterprise > Linux. You can subscribe none or all - you may not subscribe a subset > of your systems. > > > > Except it we downloaded RHEL v 4.0 from RHN through redhat's > > subscrition model and using it in our produion servers(more than > > one).Is the subscription licence and EULA are diffrent for purchased > > copy and dowloaded copy? > > > The subscription agreement is the same whether you purchase a boxed set > or download the ISOs. > > > > According to EULA , we are restricted to redistribute or resell > > RHEL with Redhat trademarks.But unable to find license policies for > > multiple installation from single copy of RHEL. > > (http://www.redhat.com/licenses/rhel_rha_eula.html) > > > According to the EULA (at least the US version), it states: > > > "If Customer wishes to increase the number of Installed System, then > Customer will purchase from Red Hat additional Services for each > additional Installed System." > > > This means that if you want to run multiple copies of RHEL, you must > purchase a subscription for them. > > > Please note that I am not a lawyer and I don't work for Red Hat. > Ed Wilts, RHCEMounds View, MN, USAmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] #1, Red > Hat Community Ambassador Program-- > > > -- പ്രവീണ് അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില് <GPLv2> I know my rights; I want my phone call! <DRM> What use is a phone call, if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.) Join The DRM Elimination Crew Now! http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Anti-DRM-Campaign --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
