Licensing issue with Red Hat Subscriptions
I would like to know how the terms of subscriptions work on any developer subscriptions(including paid and no-cost) for the following cases:
- Hardware development.
- General computer science research and experiments when the report is the main aim rather than the actual software code involved.
- A developer using the same machine as personal computer for his/her own private non-commercial things. (using other CentOS loses the devtools channel for development purposes and self-supported production does not provide devtools, or possibly can't mix subscription variants to stay within the support terms).
- Merely using RHEL to run software development tools but the target of the code is not a PC/server which has nothing to do with RHEL.
Responses
Hi Kwong Hei Tsang,
Check out the Red Hat Developer's Terms at this link https://developers.redhat.com/terms-and-conditions/.
You mentioned...
Hardware develoment, so development is development. At the Red Hat Developer Program instructional for installing Linux https://developers.redhat.com/products/rhel/hello-world/, they have 5 case uses, 1) Bare Metal 2) Hyper-V (ugh) 3) KVM 4) Virtualbox 5) VMware. So pick the one you wish.
Your #2 above, they don't constrain against specifics, they just say use it for development, not production use (see my link at the top).
Your #3 above, my own take (and this is by no means authoritative), I'd be surprised if they care if you are doing a joint-use of both development work and the user happens to do personal things too. If you want a clearer answer, I noticed when you actually join the developers.redhat.com program, someone overseeing the program emails you within a day or few and says if you have questions to let them know. If this #3 point of yours is really something you wish clarification on beyond this, register and reply back to the person who emails you from developers.redhat.com.
Your #4 point above, I suspect that point of yours still fits the pursuit of development work. I think if it is development work as they lay it out, they probably are good with it (see my last paragraph if you need something further).
Sign up for the program, they will email you and you can (if you wish) get even more clarification. My unconfirmed suspicion is that you're probably fine.
Kind Regards,
-RJ
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