Re: Oracle Development Licences
Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 22:56:54 +0800
Message-ID: <BANLkTinG6d0_MCtj7ZEpqeug6Am=wQQs3w_at_mail.gmail.com>
Correction :
In the OTN licence there is a section
"Ownership and Restrictions We retain all ownership and intellectual property rights in the programs. The programs may be installed on one computer only, and used by one person in the operating environment identified by us. You may make one copy of the programs for backup purposes" which does imply that only one person can use the software downloaded under the OTN licence.
Hemant K Chitale
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 8:43 PM, Hemant K Chitale <hemantkchitale_at_gmail.com>wrote:
>
> The "Software Investment Guide" (not to be a part of any contract !) at
> http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/pricing/software-investment-guide/index.html
> has this to say (Page 18) :
>
> "Development - Set up, customization, and modification of software is done
> in a
> development environment. Any person doing development work using the
> software must be licensed. Oracle software may be downloaded for limited
> development work via the Oracle Technology Network (OTN). Software
> downloaded from the OTN Website is governed by a special agreement called
> the
> OTN Development License. This agreement grants the individual the right to
> use
> the programs only in a development environment; licenses obtained under
> this
> agreement may not be used in test, production, fail-over, or any other
> environments. Additionally, customers who want to use any applications
> developed under an OTN license for internal data processing, commercial or
> production purposes must secure a Full Use Oracle license for any of the
> development software licensed under the OTN agreement prior to using the
> applications for such purposes."
>
> Per a reading of the above an OTN download is a like a "separate" licence.
> Software developed with this cannot be deployed unless the Full Use licence
> is purchased (for both Development and Production).
>
> The current version of the OTN Developer Licence at
> http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/licenses/standard-license-152015.html
>
> has this to say :
> "We grant you a nonexclusive, nontransferable limited license to use the
> programs only for the purpose of developing, testing, prototyping and
> demonstrating your application, and not for any other purpose. If you use
> the application you develop under this license for any internal data
> processing or for any commercial or production purposes, or 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
> or an Oracle reseller to obtain the appropriate license. You acknowledge
> that we may not produce a production release version of the program and any
> development efforts undertaken by you are at your own risk. We may audit
> your use of the programs."
> and
> "You may not:
> - use the programs for your own internal data processing or for any
> commercial or production purposes, or use the programs for any purpose
> except the development of your application;
> - use the application you develop with the programs for any internal data
> processing or commercial or production purposes without securing an
> appropriate license from us;
> - continue to develop your application after you have used it for any
> internal data processing, commercial or production purpose without securing
> an appropriate license from us, or an Oracle reseller; "
>
>
> which mean that the licence is only to Develop. But NOT to deploy. Before
> deployment, full licences for production and development must be purchased.
>
> There is no "90 days" or "single user" limit, afaik. I believe that there
> used to be wording about "single user" earlier.
>
> There is also mention of "Trial Programs" for a 30 day evaluation period.
>
> Hemant K Chitale
>
>
> On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 5:31 PM, Howard Latham <howard.latham_at_gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Anyone know when Oracle first required the purchase of licences for
>> development.?
>>
>> --
>> Howard A. Latham
>>
>> Sent from my Nokia N97
>>
>>
>
>
>
-- Hemant K Chitale http://hemantoracledba.blogspot.com -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-lReceived on Tue May 17 2011 - 09:56:54 CDT