From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Chris Travers <chris(at)travelamericas(dot)com> |
Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: OT: SCO Extortion |
Date: | 2004-01-26 20:11:33 |
Message-ID: | 200401262011.i0QKBXh28907@candle.pha.pa.us |
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Chris Travers wrote:
> RedHat Enterprise IS redistributable, and there are third party distros
> based on it. However there is one major gotcha:
>
> The contract for the enterprise services for RHEL state that every copy of
> RedHat Enterprise Linux in an organization MUST be signed up for the
> enterprise services if any one copy is. This means that an organization
> does lose the install flexibility that open source normally gives, though
> they still can run Fedora on other systems where they do not need these
> services.
>
> >From RedHat's perspective, this avoids a shell game of support "This server
> gets the services this week but this other server got the support last week.
> So we only need one subscription." Again, RHEL's licenses are not
> "licenses" but rather service contracts.
Thanks. It seems perfectly reasonable for Red Hat to place any
restrictions they want on organizations that also want to purchase
support.
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