On Sunday 12 July 2009, Rony wrote:
Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
On Saturday 11 Jul 2009 10:52:37 am jtd wrote:
Yes, so you don't get to pay for only one subscription and use it to keep an entire datacentre up to date. If Red Hat allows that, they will surely go bankrupt in a matter of weeks. This is probably what jtd means by violation of spirit.
Who cares if RH (or any other commercial entity) sank like a stone to the bottom of the sea.
I care. In fact I am totally sick of this redhat bashing. You guys seem to forget or are ignorant of the fact that red hat does not merely package stuff. It is the biggest contributor to the linux kernel and maintains several GNU tool chains. It pays M Tieman who runs the OSI and Venky who is spearheading the movement for open standards in India. They are good guys. And note that FSF, Harald Welte et al have not sued them. Looking at the people who are pontificating about them I find people who even traffic in doze prominent. I suggest we close this thread and sentence anyone who bashes redhat to hard labour - like writing a few lines of foss code.
No one is bashing RedHat. We are just trying to get a clear simple answer to a plain and simple question. Everyone is right in their own way but the final results do not tally.
That is because the questions are wrong. and the conclusions from the wrong question being partly answered and extended to unasked questions.
So the question can you copy RH cd? No Conclusion RH = not FLOSS = EULA = M$ EULA.
So the real answer Can you copy RH CD? Yes except the trademark and non FLOSS software Conclusion RH = Floss + Non FLoss + RH TRademark. I van Copy the FLoss part
Can I install on multiple machines Yes. except the NonFLoss and the for service parts.
However from all this IMHO, RHEL CDs cannot be copied and/or installed on machines other than the ones for which RedHat has been paid.
Do not conflate copying and installing. They are two utterly different things. You cant copy certain parts. You can install except certain parts.
And there is no comparison between M$ EULA and RH EULA.
-- Regards,
Rony.
GNU/Linux ! No Viruses No Spyware Only Freedom.