AFAIK you'll have to pay for the support and life cycle gurantees, not for any included propritery software license. So it is free as in speech, just not free as in beer, even if they won't put ISOs for download on the net.
One correction - all I've written above is still true AFAIK, save for one propritery program that isn't free and is included: the IBM® Java Development Kit ("JDK").
All the rest is as usual. In fact, Red Hat are going out of their way to make it perfectly clear that not only each program in the distro is licensed on it's own term, the entire collective (which has a seperate standing of it;s own as far as copyright law goes) is licenced by them under the GPL:
"Red Hat Enterprise Linux itself is a collective work under U.S. Copyright Law. Subject to the trademark use limitations set forth below, Red Hat grants Customer a license in this collective work pursuant to the GNU General Public License."
Of course, you're supposed to pay for support, updates etc and that is per machine, but not the license to use or distribute the programs themselves:
http://www.redhat.com/licenses/advancedservereula.html
At least, this is what I read into it. Anyone has any other source?
Gilad
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