RHEL without License?

[Jessica Zhu]

A side question: can we install RHEL without license? If true, where to 
get the download to do the installation? Someone asked me this recently. 
And I answered that you have to purchase the entitlement first and then 
can do the download. However, I want to confirm whether it's right.

Jessica



On Thu, 7 Jul 2005, Security wrote:

> Ed Wilts wrote:
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> >On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 04:50:23PM +0400, Security wrote:
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> >>Rik Herrin wrote:
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> >>    
> >>
> >>>I'm not sure if this question has been brought up
> >>>before or not.  I was asked by someone if they can
> >>>continue running RHEL after their yearly subscription
> >>>has expired.  They don't want to pay and don't mind
> >>>living without the security updates and access to RHN.
> >>>Is this legal or not?  Please provide links from Red
> >>>Hat documentation if possible to support your
> >>>position.  Thanks for your time.
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>I think it is legal of course .. there is some copyrighted things like
> >>the "redhat logos" or "anaconda-images" but there is a solution:
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >These are trademarked, not copyrighted. The software itself is
> >copyrighted (as is all software written these days - it's automatic) but
> >it's the license you're concerned about.
> >
> >  
> >
> >>use the rpms from centos/whitebox or gralinux and your problem is solved.
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >This doesn't necessarily solve your problems:
> >1.  Some are actively violating Red Hat trademarks
> >  
> >
> Really ??? I don't think so ...
> 
> >2.  You're not running Red Hat Enterprise Linux when you've installed
> >them.  Some 3rd party code will not install or run properly.
> >
> >  
> >
> The ONLY one problem is with the installation of Oracle DB/application
> server, you need to edit your /etc/redhat-release (if you have Centos or
> Gralinux) to install Oracle 9i/10g
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