RE: 12c grid control
Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2013 17:59:23 +0000
Message-ID: <f8of7qb79dpmx5j2xtprw964.1372874359150_at_email.android.com>
Probably true, Mark...but it also sounds like something a lawyer would never say.....:-)
"Mark W. Farnham" <mwf_at_rsiz.com> wrote:
I *think* Brian has the prudent approach here.
It would be helpful if the OTN phrase were revised slightly to declare that when a later release is available on OTN for which you are otherwise licensed you are permitted to use it as permitted under your license at your own risk.
It seems to me this would benefit both Oracle and customers.
mwf
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Subject: RE: 12c grid control
Thanks Pete! I'm not sure if other people consider the OTN license for EM12c an issue in their environment or not, I've just always found it better to be safe than sorry where licensing is involved.
Because other products like Oracle XE 11g have their own dedicated OTN
license terms
(http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/licenses/database-11g-express-license-459
621.html), and the EM12c 12.1.0.3 download is under the default OTN license
with phrases like "use the programs only for the purpose of developing,
testing, prototyping and demonstrating your application, and not for any
other purpose" and "If 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", I feel like I have to take
the click-through license at its word and consider OTN downloads as suitable
for a lab/sandbox/proof-of-concept environment but not as an acceptable
source for my production system.
I know I've seen other Oracle folks state that various downloads from edelivery vs OTN are bit-for-bit identical. I'm probably being overly pedantic here and making a distinction without a difference.
Peter Sharman wrote:
> Just for my information, is this a common concern? I've not heard of
> people having this issue before.
>
> I'll follow up to see if I can find someone who owns putting this
> stuff out on edelivery as well, not sure why it would be in one and not
the other.
After I wrote:
> I've been trying to find [EM12c 12.1.0.3] [at edelivery], since I'm
> not comfortable accepting the OTN license for a download I plan to use
> in a production installation. I don't see it under the Oracle
> Enterprise Manager product pack (Linux x86-64), I only see 12.1.0.2.
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