Purchasing RHEL AS 4

McDougall, Marshall (FSH) Marshall.McDougall at gov.mb.ca
Thu Sep 6 16:45:09 UTC 2007


If you root through RH's docs you will find that RHEL is GPL.  They
can't copyright any of it.  What they can do and have done is copyright
RHN.  It states in their own docs that you can use RHEL without a
subscription if you remove all components of RHN.

Regards, Marshall

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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ray Van Dolson
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>> It's basically a RH clone built from Red Hat's own SRPM 
>files with the
>copyrights removed.  
>
>Do you mean that literally - they modify files to remove the 
>copyrights?
>
>Surely that isn't legal...
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