Re: Practice of using chopt to disable database options

It is definitely NOT true that you pay for what you install in terms of Oracle Database options - you pay for what you use. The Licensing Guide <http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E16655_01/license.121/e17614/toc.htm> describes how the database and options are licensed.

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On 11/15/13, 4:14 AM, oracle_at_dunbar-it.co.uk wrote:


> Ian,

>

> In a word, yes.

>

> The docs say that all additional cost options are enabled by default 

> and will be installed. You must pay for them if you use them.

>

> Note the word use.

>

> However, in a past life, I was audited by Oracle and because we had 

> installed the options, we were in breach, and had to pay rather a 

> large sum of money.

>

> The real licensing docs are hidden away, on the web, and difficult to 

> find. Oracle use those as the definitive answer, and somewhere on page 

> 37 (if memory serves) it states that you must pay for everything 

> installed.

>

> Note the word installed.

>

> Search the list archives for audit, starving, leopard and you should 

> find a thread on this very matter.

>

> You pay for what you install.

>

> However, I'm pretty sure that this sneaky practice of forcing you to 

> pay for stuff Oracle install or enable by default, hidden away on the 

> installer, and with contradictory docs, plus enabling the tuning and 

> diagnostic pack in all newly created databases (at least in 11g) or 

> adding back the options you disabled with chopt or make, when you 

> patch (10205) is probably illegal.

>

> But, I'm not a lawyer, nor do I play one in my wildest sexual 

> fantasies, so best not take my word for it!

>

> Cheers,

> Norm. (in bed!)

>

> Sent from my HTC

>



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