Re: Advanced Server 2.1 update SRPMS - where?

2003-01-15 Thread Dmitry Melekhov
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Dmitry Melekhov Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 11:43 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Advanced Server 2.1 update SRPMS - where? Dan Bar Dov wrote: BTW, I talked directly with a SuSE distributor regarding their SLES product, same concept as

RE: Advanced Server 2.1 update SRPMS - where?

2003-01-15 Thread Dan Bar Dov
003 11:43 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Advanced Server 2.1 update SRPMS - where? > > Dan Bar Dov wrote: > > > > > BTW, I talked directly with a SuSE distributor regarding their SLES > > product, same concept as AS, and he confirmed my ideas. You pa

Re: Advanced Server 2.1 update SRPMS - where?

2003-01-15 Thread Michael Schwendt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 15 Jan 2003 11:33:50 +0200, Dan Bar Dov wrote: > However, the issue at hand is the license agreement. > Reading the quotes sent by Dmitry Melekhov [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > The term "Installed Servers" means the number of servers on which > > C

Re: Advanced Server 2.1 update SRPMS - where?

2003-01-15 Thread Dmitry Melekhov
Dan Bar Dov wrote: BTW, I talked directly with a SuSE distributor regarding their SLES product, same concept as AS, and he confirmed my ideas. You pay for the services, you are allowed to do with the software whatever you want. Sorry, you are wrong :-( They also force you to buy "service" on

RE: Advanced Server 2.1 update SRPMS - where?

2003-01-15 Thread Dan Bar Dov
> -Original Message- > done. > > Red Hat has made, and is continuing to made, an important and expensive > contribution to the community. Although you may legally continue to > distribute your own copies of the AS SRPMs, if everyone does it, > eventually Red Hat will be forced to discon

Re: Advanced Server 2.1 update SRPMS - where?

2003-01-14 Thread Dmitry Melekhov
Roger wrote: This means you cannot install it on multiple servers from the CDs you received when you buy a subscription, without licensing the additional servers. As you are free to 'roll your own' version of Advanced Server, it is quite acceptable to have one server that is licensed from CDs and

Re: Advanced Server 2.1 update SRPMS - where?

2003-01-14 Thread Roger
This means you cannot install it on multiple servers from the CDs you received when you buy a subscription, without licensing the additional servers. As you are free to 'roll your own' version of Advanced Server, it is quite acceptable to have one server that is licensed from CDs and other servers

Re: Advanced Server 2.1 update SRPMS - where?

2003-01-14 Thread Dmitry Melekhov
or Service per Installed Server, pay a penalty equal to twenty percent (20%) of the underreported fees. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Dmitry Melekhov Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 1:23 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: A

Re: Advanced Server 2.1 update SRPMS - where?

2003-01-14 Thread Roger
On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Samuel Flory wrote: > Actually I was trying to point out how silly it is to use AS outside > of RH's program. The reason to use AS is not that there is anything > special about 95% of the AS packages. The reason to use AS is to have > someone standing behind you when you r

Re: Advanced Server 2.1 update SRPMS - where?

2003-01-14 Thread Samuel Flory
Ed Wilts wrote: On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 09:30:11AM -0800, Samuel Flory wrote: For the most part RH is simply packaging these programs in an rpm. Take a quick look through the changelogs: rpm -q --changelog | less Now tell me that it's a simple packaging. You're so far out of line

Re: Advanced Server 2.1 update SRPMS - where?

2003-01-14 Thread Ed Wilts
On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 09:30:11AM -0800, Samuel Flory wrote: > Ed Wilts wrote: > > >Morally, it's another story. You should by a subscription for all your > >systems, but you don't have to legally do it as long as the packages you > >redistribute are GPL'd. > > > > > > > I'm missing me the m

Re: Advanced Server 2.1 update SRPMS - where?

2003-01-14 Thread Samuel Flory
Ed Wilts wrote: On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 12:20:34PM +0400, Dmitry Melekhov wrote: I disagree with you too :-) Original post says that one want to buy subscription to one server and then install updates from sources to several servers. This is impossible according to Service Agreement. You must

Re: Advanced Server 2.1 update SRPMS - where?

2003-01-14 Thread Samuel Flory
Dmitry Melekhov wrote: I disagree with you too :-) Original post says that one want to buy subscription to one server and then install updates from sources to several servers. This is impossible according to Service Agreement. You must pay for service for all servers. If you can't read this is n

Re: Advanced Server 2.1 update SRPMS - where?

2003-01-14 Thread Ed Wilts
On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 12:20:34PM +0400, Dmitry Melekhov wrote: > I disagree with you too :-) > Original post says that one want to buy subscription to one server > and then install updates from sources to several servers. > This is impossible according to Service Agreement. > You must pay for ser

RE: Advanced Server 2.1 update SRPMS - where?

2003-01-14 Thread Dan Bar Dov
14, 2003 1:23 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Advanced Server 2.1 update SRPMS - where? > > Roger wrote: > >>>The reason for wanting to subscribe for the SRPMS is for some level of > >>>service in receiving the SRPMS as quickly as possible after a securit

Re: Advanced Server 2.1 update SRPMS - where?

2003-01-14 Thread Dmitry Melekhov
Roger wrote: The reason for wanting to subscribe for the SRPMS is for some level of service in receiving the SRPMS as quickly as possible after a security release. Although Red Hat makes the SRPMS publicly available on updates.redhat.com, they may choose to delay the release of them except for th

Re: Advanced Server 2.1 update SRPMS - where?

2003-01-14 Thread Roger
> > The reason for wanting to subscribe for the SRPMS is for some level of > > service in receiving the SRPMS as quickly as possible after a security > > release. Although Red Hat makes the SRPMS publicly available on > > updates.redhat.com, they may choose to delay the release of them except > >

Re: Advanced Server 2.1 update SRPMS - where?

2003-01-14 Thread Dmitry Melekhov
Roger wrote: I disagree with you too :-) Original post says that one want to buy subscription to one server and then install updates from sources to several servers. This is impossible according to Service Agreement. You must pay for service for all servers. If you can't read this is not my proble

Re: Advanced Server 2.1 update SRPMS - where?

2003-01-14 Thread Roger
> I disagree with you too :-) > Original post says that one want to buy subscription to one server > and then install updates from sources to several servers. > This is impossible according to Service Agreement. > You must pay for service for all servers. > If you can't read this is not my problem

Re: Advanced Server 2.1 update SRPMS - where?

2003-01-14 Thread Dmitry Melekhov
Roger wrote: I do not think it is possible to distribute these ISOs outside my organisation as it will violate Red Hat's trademarks, however it is quite easy to create your own version, I may publish some instructions on how I did it if people are interested. Yes, this is interesting :-) -- r

Re: Advanced Server 2.1 update SRPMS - where?

2003-01-14 Thread Dmitry Melekhov
Dan Bar Dov wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Roger Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 6:41 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Advanced Server 2.1 update SRPMS - where? According to http://www.redhat.com/licenses/rhlas_us.html

RE: Advanced Server 2.1 update SRPMS - where?

2003-01-14 Thread Dan Bar Dov
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > On Behalf Of Roger > Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 6:41 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Advanced Server 2.1 update SRPMS - where? > > According to http://www.redhat.com/li

Re: Advanced Server 2.1 update SRPMS - where?

2003-01-14 Thread Dmitry Melekhov
Dan Bar Dov wrote: -Original Message- If so, I guess I'll have to purchase one subscription just to ^ get the SRPMS from RHN, which I then have it automatically build the RPM and distributed to my other servers.

RE: Advanced Server 2.1 update SRPMS - where?

2003-01-13 Thread Dan Bar Dov
> -Original Message- > > > > > > > > > > If so, I guess I'll have to purchase one subscription just to get > > the > > > > SRPMS from RHN, which I then have it automatically build the RPM and > > > > distributed to my other servers. > > > > > > This is impossible :-) > > > Accroding to Se

RE: Advanced Server 2.1 update SRPMS - where?

2003-01-13 Thread Roger
According to http://www.redhat.com/licenses/rhlas_us.html you cannot install the purchased product on more that one machine, without buying additional licenses. In addition you also give Red Hat the authority to conduct on site audits to verify compliance. However, as Red Hat Advanced Server is n

Re: Advanced Server 2.1 update SRPMS - where?

2003-01-13 Thread Dmitry Melekhov
- Original Message - From: "Dan Bar Dov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 11:36 AM Subject: RE: Advanced Server 2.1 update SRPMS - where? > > > > > > > > If so, I guess I'll have to purchase

RE: Advanced Server 2.1 update SRPMS - where?

2003-01-12 Thread Dan Bar Dov
> > > > If so, I guess I'll have to purchase one subscription just to get the > > SRPMS from RHN, which I then have it automatically build the RPM and > > distributed to my other servers. > > This is impossible :-) > Accroding to Service Agreement you have to buy subscription to all > Installed

Re: Advanced Server 2.1 update SRPMS - where?

2003-01-12 Thread Dmitry Melekhov
Roger wrote: I have recently created my own version of Advanced Server 2.1 using the SRPMS that Red Hat have made available and intend on using it on a few dozen servers. I have noticed that so far this year, 8 security packages for AS 2.1 have been released, but none of the SRPMS have yet appear

Re: Advanced Server 2.1

2002-12-11 Thread Samuel Flory
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can I donwload RH Advcanced Server 2.1 from a ftp server ?? If not from RedHat they are playing a M$ role .. Does anywone have the RH 2.1 AS iso's ?? Keep in mind that AS is really just 7.1, with a few extra packages, and some updates. What you are really pay

Re: Advanced Server 2.1

2002-12-11 Thread nate
> Can I donwload RH Advcanced Server 2.1 from a ftp server ?? > > If not from RedHat they are playing a M$ role .. > Does anywone have the RH 2.1 AS iso's ?? ISOs are not available but you can download the source rpms and compile it. Redhat is under no obligation to make their software easy t