Sorry I meant the License Agreement you agree to when you download the
software versus the Usage specified in the Oracle 11g and 12c docs for the
software. Those appear to be in conflict as far as scope.
On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 9:31 AM, Jeremy Schneider <
jeremy.schneider@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 6:42 AM, Jeremy Schneider wrote:http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E18248_01/doc/license.112/e10594/editions.htm#DBLIC2101
I'm familiar with the text Andrew quoted from the 11.2
licensing guide.
But I just went hunting for the same text in the 12c licensing
guide... and it seems that they removed that paragraph and replaced
it with a new one:
https://docs.oracle.com/database/121/DBLIC/editions.htm#BABHIAAF
On Thu, 21 Jul 2016 08:49:27 -0500 Chris Taylor wrote:
[if] the 2 documents are
in CONFLICT in regard to SCOPE of the rights granted,
FWIW, I didn't see them as conflicting - I just figured the 11g
licensing guide appled to version 11 and the 12c guide applied to
version 12.
Personally though, if I owned a company, there's no way I'd deploy
oracle clusterware in production based on this flimsy thinking. When
buying software from Oracle, what matters is the contract that they
sign with me - which should explicitly reference documents,
definitions, etc - and should explicitly grant rights to me. With open
source software, I am explicitly granted rights through licenses like
the GPL or BSD or what-have-you, which are always distributed as part
of the software package itself.
This Oracle licensing doc is not part of the clusterware software
package that's distributed. Matthew is dead right when he highlights
the importance of how you download the software. If you download from
OTN, then you *cannot* use it for production. You need to download from
eDelivery or MOS for that.
Some corp lawyers already have issues with open source licenses... at a
previous employer, I once worked together with my VP to try and educate
our corp lawyer about risks and mechanics of GPL licenses and reasons
why they were ok for our particular use case. The lawyers have valid
concerns and good questions that techies don't always think to ask.
If your company has any oracle products whatsoever, then you might have
an easier go with deploying clusterware in the "free" use case - you
have access to edelivery and you have a contract in place that
references some version of the licensing doc. If you have no
relationship with Oracle whatsoever, then you should probably do a
little research and possibly talk to a lawyer. Or just go talk to
someone at Oracle sales; maybe they'll just give it to you. I haven't
tried!
Just some thoughts... and I'll probably retract all of this tomorrow :)
-Jeremy
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