Revisiting an old topic: licensing/titlement and "redistribution"

David Tonhofer redhatter at m-plify.net
Sat Dec 22 18:43:35 UTC 2007


Jon Stanley wrote:
>> .........but can I run no-longer-subscribed Red Hat Enterprise
>> instantiations or not?
>>     
>
> I am not a lawyer, however I believe that you can - per direction from
> RH legal at the Summit - but IF AND ONLY IF you have *no* currently
> subscribed systems.  That is the barrier to not being bound to the
> subscription agreement, which states 1 machine takes 1 entitlement.

Well, that makes sense, thanks you :-)

Now if Red Hat would only furnish a reasonable RHN interface where you 
could map orders to
entitlements and entitlements to machines and synchronize the expiration 
dates (come on Red Hat).
But that's another story.

-- David




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