Licensing
From: Dave Morgan <oracle_at_1001111.com>
Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2015 06:08:58 -0700
Message-ID: <54AFD2EA.20602_at_1001111.com>
>
> As for how long I have been involved in licensing Oracle's products?
> Well, I have never been an employee of Oracle, nor have I actually
> *written* one of their license agreements. I have, however, been *using*
> Oracle databases for close to 20 years, and reading the license agreements
> and advising customers on how to (correctly) comply with their licenses for
> much of that time. I am not a lawyer, but I am fairly widely perceived as
> "quite knowledgeable" on this subject. (Sadly, though, much of that
> perception may be due to the fact that few others actually *read*
> Oracle's license agreements, as I do.)
>
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Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2015 06:08:58 -0700
Message-ID: <54AFD2EA.20602_at_1001111.com>
>
> As for how long I have been involved in licensing Oracle's products?
> Well, I have never been an employee of Oracle, nor have I actually
> *written* one of their license agreements. I have, however, been *using*
> Oracle databases for close to 20 years, and reading the license agreements
> and advising customers on how to (correctly) comply with their licenses for
> much of that time. I am not a lawyer, but I am fairly widely perceived as
> "quite knowledgeable" on this subject. (Sadly, though, much of that
> perception may be due to the fact that few others actually *read*
> Oracle's license agreements, as I do.)
>
It blows my mind how many people think they "know" what the Oracle licensing obligations are. Would you ask a lawyer to run an Oracle database? So why would a DBA know anything about licensing?
On every site I write up a list of databases with their associated licenses and send it to the corporate lawyer along with the related license agreements,
PROD1 DB CSI XXXXXXXXX PROD2 DB CSI YYYYYYYYY Hot BACKUP CSI XXXXXXXXX RMAN DB RMAN license OEM DB OEM License STG DB Oracle Development license DEV_DB Oracle Development Database
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In every case the lawyer (USA, UK and Canada)has come back to me and said the licenses contradict each other.
In other words, it was impossible to correctly comply with all the licenses.
YMMV Dave
-- Dave Morgan Senior Consultant, 1001111 Alberta Limited dave.morgan_at_1001111.com 403 399 2442 -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-lReceived on Fri Jan 09 2015 - 14:08:58 CET