Re: Quick cluster licensing question

[Chris Kloiber <ckloiber redhat com>]

On Thu, 2004-12-16 at 16:05 -0500, David Aquilina wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 15:07:51 -0500 (EST), William Hooper
> <whooperhsd2 earthlink net> wrote:
> > 
> > Lee Whatley, Contractor said:
> > [snip]
> > > 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?
> > 
> > Unfortunately all you will get on mailing lists are guesses.
> 
> While certainly not an official Red Hat statement, I had the
> opportunity a few months ago to speak to the person who wrote the
> subscription agreement. His response was that you must have a valid
> subscription for every system you install RHEL on.
> 
> There isn't, on the other hand, anything stopping you from running
> Centos or another rebuild on those nodes.

I'd like to point out that there is some pretty low pricing on Red Hat
Enterprise Linux WS when used as HPC nodes. Call Sales for the figures.

-- 
Chris Kloiber, RHCX
Global Support Services
Red Hat, Inc.