On Friday 29 April 2005 04:06, Net Hub wrote:
On 4/28/05, Johannes Findeisen <mailman(a)hanez.org> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> i have a problem on finding the licensing information for the Red Hat
> Enterprise Linux Software. Is this software free? Okay, i know the
> packages must be free but are there Tools in the package that aren't
> free?
>
> Or could i download the _30_day_trial_, install it on a customers server
> and let it run for some month? Okay thats a bad idea because i don't will
> get updates but thats not my question... ;-)
>
> I must say, that i am not planning to get as much i can for free, but i
> really would like to understand... I am using Fedora and Gentoo anyway!
>
If you want a free version of RHEL, check out:
www.centos.org
www.whiteboxlinux.com
www.taolinux.org
I highly recommend CentOS. We use it on quite a few servers with great
success.
Okay, but that was not my question. I know CentOS. I just want to know if i
could take the packages from Red Hat and use them for my customers?
Since i really like Fedora Core and the RHEL - the sceond one espacially in
commercial envoirenments - i really would like to install an enterprise Linux
witout to infringe any license.
My customer will then be happy, that he could use an enterprise Linux
operation system _for_free_. And after some time he maybe needs enterprise
support and could easy buy a license at RedHat, use the support and finally
update the system when he wants. Or maybe i will do the updates and could
earn some money too... ;-)
I think this is a good way to make them an easy decission in the future.
Regards
--
Johannes Findeisen