Re: Redhat licensing

[Alvin Wong <alvin wong b2b com my>]

Hi David,

But what's the legal issue here in setting up our own satellite server 
like what redhat has been doing for it's corporate customers to 
distribute the updates and purchasing only 1 subscription to receive 
updates, distribute out?

Speaking of satellite servers, are there any relevant ones for rhel3.0 
which anyone has set up before? Are whiteboxlinux and the other distros 
based on RHEL capable of running oracle?

Regards,
Alvin



David Aquilina wrote:

> In the end, the bits are free. What Red Hat wants you to pay for is
> support and easy updates/management features via RHN.
>
> What you cannot do is buy one subscription, and attempt to use it on
> several different machines at once. As far as I know, Red Hat is not
> selling boxed versions of RHEL without an accompanying subscription.
>
> Several groups have already done rebuilds of RHEL, resulting in
> freely-available binary ISOs. See http://www.whiteboxlinux.org/ and
> http://taolinux.org/. Note though that those aren't official Red Hat
> products, and you won't get one iota of support from Red Hat if you
> run into problems.
>
> ISOs for Fedora are freely available. See http://fedora.redhat.com.
> Shrike is Red Hat Linux 9, and has been End-of-Life'd.
>
>