[lug] Fedora *MEETS* KRUD comments wanted

[Gary Hodges]

Ed Hill wrote:

>On Fri, 2003-09-26 at 16:23, Jeffrey Siegal wrote:
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>>Ed Hill wrote:
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>>>OK, theres still one area where I think a lot of people are perhaps
>>>(severely?) overestimating the cost of RHEL when used for multiple
>>>machines.
>>>
>>>Whats to stop you from buying a small number of copies of RHEL (WS, ES,
>>>or AS) and a small number of RHN subscriptions and then using your own
>>>INTERNAL (to your company) mechanisms to distribute the updates to
>>>multiple internal machines?
>>>
>>>Remember, Red Hat is very careful to include only Open Source packages
>>>in their distributions
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>>>
>>I'm not sure that's true for RHEL, but see below anyway.
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>>>so I don't see where you'd be violating any
>>>copyright laws.
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>>>
>>You're not violating copyright laws, but you would be violating the 
>>contract you have with Red Hat for the RHN *service*.
>>
>>And how could that be?  How can Red Hat (or anyone for that matter)
>>place further restrictions on licenses such as the GPL?  The answer is
>>simple: they can't.
>>
>>What they *can* do is place restrictions on the number of systems that
>>you *DIRECTLY* connect to their RHN service.  And thats not at all what
>>I'm suggesting.  I'm suggesting that you scrupulously follow all of the
>>terms of all the licenses.  I'm also pointing out that the RPM packages
>>on your system (that is, once they are loaded onto one of your machines)
>>can then be distributed internally.
>>
Would it violate any license or agreement if the tummy folks used a RHEL 
version for  KRUD?  
Gary