Re: Redistribution of Oracle JDBC Drivers

According to the license text, I believe you must get user agreements and return them to Oracle. I think your best bet is to call Oracle and talk to a real person. A sales office should be able to help you.

Here is the Oracle License text:

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"Paul Bemowski" <bemowski_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message news:44491fb2.0109050641.176f2353_at_posting.google.com...
> I have a question for the groups.
>
> I would like to re-distribute the Oracle JDBC driver with a client
> side application written to be compatable with Oracle as well as other
> RDBMS systems. I've looked high an low on the Oracle and OTN and
> technet web sites; I've search newsgroups and the web. I can't find a
> single reference that would grant or deny the right to redistribute
> the Oracle JDBC drivers.
>
> Has anyone here run into a similar problem. Does anyone know if it is
> legal to redistribute the drivers, and if so, what are the
> restrictions if any.
>
> Any help is appreciated.
>
> Paul Bemowski
> bemowski_at_yahoo.com
Received on Wed Sep 05 2001 - 21:33:14 CEST