On Thursday 09 July 2009, Rony wrote: > jtd wrote: > > RH is free. As a user you are guaranteed certain rights under various > > FLOSS licences. Those rights do not go away just because RH says so. > > Why not have a RedHat representative answer the following questions > directly as they are.
Because irrespective of what they say, ( and they are telling you thru the licence dont copy and You waive your right to install, even though in this case you obviously haven't.) 1) you cannot make a gpl package into a non gpl package by adding or removing anything. 2) Even if the distro as a whole is copyright RH and hence cannot be copied, nothing prevents you from installing on as many machines as installing != copying. > In all the questions we are assuming that there is > no requirement for paid support of any kind. And closed packages are governed by their respective licences. > > 1. Is the RedHat Enterprise Linux operating system available free of > cost for installation in any form like CD or an ISO or directly > downloadable through a distro builder like Jigdo that will produce a > ready ISO for burning into a CD or through a net install CD ISO that > installs a minimum base software and downloads the remaining packages > from the repos? > > 2. If one customer has purchased an RHEL CD, can anyone else make a copy > of the CD > or use the same CD and legally install it on other systems > free of cost without involving RedHat in any way? Yes. > > -- > Regards, > > Rony. > > GNU/Linux ! > No Viruses > No Spyware > Only Freedom. -- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
