26 Oct
2004
26 Oct
'04
11:23 p.m.
In general, these sorts of licenses apply only to the bits which are not
under the GPL. In a typical Red Hat distro, this is mainly the Red Hat
Network client (but please check carefully).
Red Hat may price support at a per-pc price, and may generally make
agreements which support this practice. Such agreements may say that
Red Hat won't sell you support for 50 PCs if you in fact have 500 PCs
running RH software.
You still have your full rights under the GPL -- but Red Hat may simply
choose not to sell you support. This is probably what the RH rep meant
when they said that you "weren't allowed" to copy the software.
However, if you have specific information that this is not the meaning
of the license, please let me know.
--
-Dave "Novalis" Turner
GPL Compliance Engineer
Free Software Foundation