On Thu, 2016-12-01 at 16:31 -0600, Uriel Gonzalez wrote:

> Hello,

Hi,



>  I am a mathematics/computer science college student. I am looking

> forward to becoming a SL user, but the last time that I installed it

> it came with the Red Hat Enterprise Linux License Agreement. I

> remember the agreement asked me to create an account in Red Hat. I

> read in the SL website that SL is not supported by Red Hat, so I was

> not sure whether I should create the account or not. The first time I

> installed SL I just closed the Aggrement and SL worked just fine, but

> I uninstalled it becuase I did not wanted to be liable for not

> accepting the license agreement. Is there any cost in the license to

> use SL?If so, how much is it? Is it open for anyone to download and

> use or is it exclusive for scientists?

> 

> I am starting to do research on numerical analysis and creating

> programs to implement them. It is my hope to add those programs or

> libraries to SL.



If your goal in the long term is to add software to SL, I would

recommend starting with contributions to the Fedora project.



Lef