Re: Oracle Development Licences

From: Hemant K Chitale <hemantkchitale_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 20:43:09 +0800
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The "Software Investment Guide" (not to be a part of any contract !) at http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/pricing/software-investment-guide/index.html has this to say (Page 18) :

"Development - Set up, customization, and modification of software is done in a
development environment. Any person doing development work using the software must be licensed. Oracle software may be downloaded for limited development work via the Oracle Technology Network (OTN). Software downloaded from the OTN Website is governed by a special agreement called the
OTN Development License. This agreement grants the individual the right to use
the programs only in a development environment; licenses obtained under this agreement may not be used in test, production, fail-over, or any other environments. Additionally, customers who want to use any applications developed under an OTN license for internal data processing, commercial or production purposes must secure a Full Use Oracle license for any of the development software licensed under the OTN agreement prior to using the applications for such purposes."

Per a reading of the above an OTN download is a like a "separate" licence.  Software developed with this cannot be deployed unless the Full Use licence is purchased (for both Development and Production).

The current version of the OTN Developer Licence at http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/licenses/standard-license-152015.html

has this to say :
"We grant you a nonexclusive, nontransferable limited license to use the programs only for the purpose of developing, testing, prototyping and demonstrating your application, and not for any other purpose. If you use the application you develop under this license for any internal data processing or for any commercial or production purposes, or you want to use the programs for any purpose other than as permitted under this agreement, you must obtain a production release version of the program by contacting us or an Oracle reseller to obtain the appropriate license. You acknowledge that we may not produce a production release version of the program and any development efforts undertaken by you are at your own risk. We may audit your use of the programs."
and
"You may not:
- use the programs for your own internal data processing or for any commercial or production purposes, or use the programs for any purpose except the development of your application; - use the application you develop with the programs for any internal data processing or commercial or production purposes without securing an appropriate license from us;
- continue to develop your application after you have used it for any internal data processing, commercial or production purpose without securing an appropriate license from us, or an Oracle reseller; "

which mean that the licence is only to Develop. But NOT to deploy. Before deployment, full licences for production and development must be purchased.

There is no "90 days" or "single user" limit, afaik. I believe that there used to be wording about "single user" earlier.

There is also mention of "Trial Programs" for a 30 day evaluation period.

Hemant K Chitale

On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 5:31 PM, Howard Latham <howard.latham_at_gmail.com>wrote:

> Anyone know when Oracle first required the purchase of licences for
> development.?
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> Howard A. Latham
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> Sent from my Nokia N97
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