RE: Quick cluster licensing question

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

Ed,

	I don't want to get into the semantics or the RedHat license. If
you want a supported system (as the OP stated), you must pay for it. And
per the license, you must also pay for any other installed version of
RHEL.

Again, the original question was regarding supported RHEL in a cluster,
in which case you pay for each node.

Kevin

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:taroon-list-bounces redhat com] On Behalf Of Ed Wilts
Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2004 11:04 AM
To: Discussion of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (Taroon)
Subject: Re: Quick cluster licensing question


On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 10:33:17AM -0800, Collins, Kevin (MindWorks)
wrote:
> 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
                          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

RHEL's licensing is GPL.  Again, you're paying for a support contract,
not the RHEL licenses.

> package. If you have a cluster, you pay for an RHEL license for the
                                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
No you don't.

You have the option of buying a support contract for:
1.  RHEL
2.  Red Hat Cluster Suite

In both cases, you can have all the software you need for free.  Simply
install Tao Linux and you've got it all (GFS too if you want it!).
If you want support, then yes, you need to pay somebody some money.
Personally, I run RH Pro Workstation at home and pay Red Hat for the
support bits (RHN access mostly).  I've also run Tao Linux (free) and
Fedora (free) at home.  At work, we have RHEL support contracts for
every system even though I know I can run the systems without support
for free - Red Hat provides a service that we're willing to pay for.

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Ed Wilts, RHCE
Mounds View, MN, USA
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