RE: Quick cluster licensing question

["Collins, Kevin (MindWorks)" <KCollins chevrontexaco com>]

Maybe I'm wrong, but my understanding of the original question (and what
I responded to) was the licensing of RHEL itself and not the cluster
package. If you have a cluster, you pay for an RHEL license for the
installed OS on each node.

If something has changed in the last few months(quite possible), or if I
misunderstood the original question, I apologize.

Kevin


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:taroon-list-bounces redhat com] On Behalf Of Ed Wilts
Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2004 10:24 AM
To: Discussion of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (Taroon)
Subject: Re: Quick cluster licensing question


On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 09:15:51AM -0800, Collins, Kevin (MindWorks)
wrote:
> I was involved (tangentially) in meetings our HPC group was having
about
> RHEL licensing and clustering, and the answer at the time (a few
months
> ago) was that each node is an installed RHEL system and you must have
a
> license for each installed RHEL system. 

I believe we need to be clearer on the terminology.  You do not need a
LICENSE - the cluster pieces are GPL'd and are in fact part of Tao Linux
and other RHEL rebuilds.  What Red Hat sells is SUPPORT for the
clustering pieces.

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