RE: Oracle License

One wonders why we have to have these conversations on a regular basis when the legal documents are clear.  

There are only two ways to officially acquire the software that you claim to be free.

From the OTN/Technet downloads page or from internal SW delivery from Oracle which would require a SW/support agreement.  

For the base SW which includes GRID control you are always pointed to the OTN page even if you purchased SW.  

If you use the OTN page then you have to say yes to the OTN license agreement.  

You must accept the <javascript:showAgreement();> OTN License Agreement to download this software.

 Accept License Agreement | Decline License Agreement  

If you click decline you are not allowed to download SW.  

If you read the agreement from the link  

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/licenses/standard-license-152015.html  

…”Oracle grants You a nonexclusive, nontransferable, limited license to internally use the Programs, subject to the restrictions stated in this Agreement, only for the purpose of developing, testing, prototyping, and demonstrating Your application and only as long as Your application has not been used for any data processing, business, commercial, or production purposes, and not for any other purpose. …”  

You can only use it for “developing, testing, prototyping, and demonstrating “ you cannot use it for “for any data processing, business, commercial, or production purposes, and not for any other purpose “.  

It doesn’t matter whether the SW is free in the end or not, you are not allowed to use it for real every day purposes. This is what you legally agreed to be bound by.  

Only by having a SW Purchase agreement and/or Support agreement are you allowed to use the software for those restricted activities listed in the OTN agreement.  

“…If You want to use the Programs or Your application for any purpose other than as expressly permitted under this Agreement, You must obtain from Oracle or an Oracle reseller a valid Programs license under a separate agreement permitting such use. …”    

11gR1 Licensing Document

https://docs.oracle.com/cd/B28359_01/license.111/b28287.pdf  

Oracle Clusterware Oracle Clusterware can be installed and used to protect any Oracle or third-party software provided any of the following conditions are met:

1. The software being protected is from Oracle.
2. The software being protected uses an Oracle Database.
3. The software being protected is running on Oracle Unbreakable Linux.
4. The software being protected is running in a cluster where at least one machine involved in the cluster is licensed using the appropriate metric for either Oracle Database Enterprise Edition or Oracle Database Standard Edition.

A cluster is defined to include all the machines that share the same Oracle Cluster Registry (OCR) and Voting Disk.  

Oracle Unbreakable Linux

http://www.oracle.com/us/faq-clusterware-1728221.pdf  

As an Oracle Linux Support customer, how do I obtain Oracle Clusterware?

Oracle Linux Support customers at the Basic and Premier levels can download the product and deploy it for free as part of their Oracle Linux Support contract.    

For 11gR2 and 12c, the wording changed which is where I think you are getting confused Mladen, but you still have to get to download it by agreeing to the OTN License policy which limits your use meaning free does not mean free for anything you can think of doing with the SW.  

https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E11882_01/license.112/e47877.pdf

Oracle Clusterware Oracle Clusterware provides cluster membership and high availability monitoring and failover. Oracle Clusterware may be used to protect any application (restarting or failing over the application in the event of a failure) on any server, free of charge. Oracle will provide support for Clusterware only if the server is running an Oracle product, which may include Oracle Linux or Oracle Solaris, that is also under Oracle support.  

12c Licensing document

https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E50790_01/doc/license.121/e17614.pdf  

Oracle Clusterware Oracle Clusterware provides cluster membership and high availability monitoring and failover. Oracle Clusterware may be used to protect any application (restarting or failing over the application in the event of a failure) on any server, free of charge. Oracle will provide support for Clusterware only if the server is running an Oracle product, which may include Oracle Linux or Oracle Solaris, that is also under Oracle support.      

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From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Nagaraj chk Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2016 9:33 PM
To: gogala.mladen_at_gmail.com
Cc: Chitale, Hemant K; Andrew Kerber; Jared Still; Oracle-L Freelists; Seth Miller Subject: Re: Oracle License  

thank you all for the clarifation  

On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 7:39 AM, Mladen Gogala <gogala.mladen_at_gmail.com> wrote:

On 07/20/2016 10:01 PM, Chitale, Hemant K wrote:

Oracle Clusterware is a complete, enterprise class clustering solution. It is a free. To get support for upgrades or patches, a valid support license for any other Oracle product such as Oracle Linux, Oracle Solaris, or any other supported Oracle application is required.  

Support requires a licensed product.  

Hi Hemant!

Of course support requires a licensed product. We weren't talking about support. We were talking about the clusterware. And clusterware is free. Thanks for finding more quotes confirming my claim.

Regards

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Mladen Gogala
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