Licensing
- From: Dave Morgan <oracle@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Oracle-L <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2015 06:08:58 -0700
As for how long I have been involved in licensing Oracle's products?
Well, I have never been an employee of Oracle, nor have I actually
*written* one of their license agreements. I have, however, been *using*
Oracle databases for close to 20 years, and reading the license agreements
and advising customers on how to (correctly) comply with their licenses for
much of that time. I am not a lawyer, but I am fairly widely perceived as
"quite knowledgeable" on this subject. (Sadly, though, much of that
perception may be due to the fact that few others actually *read*
Oracle's license agreements, as I do.)
It blows my mind how many people think they "know" what the Oracle licensing
obligations are. Would you ask a lawyer to run an Oracle database? So why would
a DBA know anything about licensing?
On every site I write up a list of databases with their associated licenses and
send it to
the corporate lawyer along with the related license agreements,
PROD1 DB CSI XXXXXXXXX
PROD2 DB CSI YYYYYYYYY
Hot BACKUP CSI XXXXXXXXX
RMAN DB RMAN license
OEM DB OEM License
STG DB Oracle Development license
DEV_DB Oracle Development Database
.....
In every case the lawyer (USA, UK and Canada)has come back to me and said the
licenses
contradict each other.
In other words, it was impossible to correctly comply with all the licenses.
YMMV
Dave
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