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.
- 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?
- 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.
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