Re: Metalink for developers?

Well thats good to hear. We are just starting out and protoyping our applicatioon. we are going to be joing the Oracle Partners Program. But we needed to get started with somethingn and this looked like a good opertunity.

Thanks for he reply I just wanted to make sure I wasn't going crazy and that the Oracle police weren't getting ready to drop in through a hole cut ion the ceiling.

Thanks,

Bill

"Howard J. Rogers" <howardjr2000_at_yahoo.com.au> wrote in message news:pan.2003.02.14.20.24.13.623417_at_yahoo.com.au...
> On Fri, 14 Feb 2003 13:30:02 +0000, Bill Lucas wrote:
>
> > That is the same license agreement I went back and read just to make
sure.
> > The EULA can be found at
> >

http://otn.oracle.com/software/htdocs/devlic.html?/software/products/oracle8
> > i/htdocs/winsoft.html DA Morgan's warning echoes one I received via
private
> > email. We are not trying to be software pirates here, and are perfectly
> > willing to do what it takes to "remain legal". As I read the license
> > agreement you posted it seemed to me that we did have the right to use
it
> > for development purposes. There seems to be some confusion on the
issue,
> > and I don't really want to cause any problems.
>
>
> There shouldn't be any confusion. Daniel was exaggerating, and the license
> is clear: development work in the database is perfectly legit. Taking the
> fruits of your development and starting to use it in earnest against even
> your own, private and personal data is not. And making hard cash out of it
> is clearly a no-no. I'm not a lawyer, either, though, or I would have
> invoiced you for the 5 hours it took me to write those two sentences.
>
> However, there's no support, which could make development tricky. And no
> Metalink (which makes it even more tricky).
>
> Regards
> HJR
>
Received on Fri Feb 14 2003 - 14:30:01 CST