Apparent (not real) conflict between GPL & reported licensing terms

Apparent (not real) conflict between GPL & reported licensing terms

Posted Jul 31, 2003 14:24 UTC (Thu) by tjc (subscriber, #137)
In reply to: Apparent (not real) conflict between GPL & reported licensing terms by Wol
Parent article: Sun Sees Road To Prosperity Paved With Its Own Products (TechWeb)

Or look at RedHat - WHICH CHARGES A PER-SEAT LICENCE

I think you must be confusing Red Hat Linux (the general distribution) with Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The former can be downloaded without paying any licensing fees:

http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/9/en/iso/i386/

...if you try to be cheap by only licencing some computers, then RH, SuSE, and presumably Sun, will just say "sorry" and leave you in the lurch.

If you intend "leave you in the lurch" to mean that they won't provide a service which you did not pay for, then yes, that is correct. This is a strategy followed by most financially solvent companies.

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