To: "Discussion of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (Taroon)" <taroon-list redhat com>
Subject: Re: Quick cluster licensing question
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 13:40:47 -0600
If I were to build a ROCKS cluster, but use the RHEL system binaries
instead of the ROCKS ones I would only technically need the frontend
node to access RHN. In a ROCKS cluster the frontend node handles
updating the compute nodes, so only one machine would actually be
accessing the RHN server.
So to clarify my question, if I were to do as I stated above, that is
buy one RHEL support license for my frontend node, but use it to also
update the compute nodes, would that be a violation of Red Hat's
licensing agreement?
Yes I know that there are other distro's (Tao, etc.) who's packages are
identical to the RHEL packages. I don't care about that. I want the
cluster to be updated via RHN like all of my other servers. I'm just
trying to figure out whether or not it is economically feasible to do
that in a legal way.
-Lee
Ed Wilts wrote:
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.