Re: Oracle License

I was going to chime in with some food for thought as well. IF (and this is a big IF) I remember my business law correctly, if 2 documents from a vendor grant usage rights, and the 2 documents are in CONFLICT in regard to SCOPE of the rights granted, then the document that grants the BROADEST SCOPE overrules the more restrictive use document (the one with more limited scope). AGAIN, I "think" that is right but I'm not a lawyer and its been many years since I had business law classes.

So, basically this reply is me saying "Hey, here is something I think is right but could also be completely and utterly wrong."

Chris

On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 6:42 AM, Jeremy Schneider < jeremy.schneider_at_ardentperf.com> wrote:

> Well shoot. After checking the docs... I'm going to go on Hemant's and
> Mladen's side and say that Jared, Andrew, Seth and Matthew might all
> have it wrong. (WTF?!)
>
> To be fair, my understanding has always been in line with them until
> just now. I'm familiar with the text Andrew quoted from the 11.2
> licensing guide.
>
> He didn't give a link - so here it is:
>
> http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E18248_01/doc/license.112/e10594/editions.htm#DBLIC2101
>
> But I just went hunting for the same text in the 12c licensing guide...
> and it seems that they removed that paragraph and replaced it with a new
> one:
> https://docs.oracle.com/database/121/DBLIC/editions.htm#BABHIAAF
>
> "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."
>
> So it's possible that this has actually been quietly changed between 11g
> and 12c - perhaps starting in 12c, clusterware is free without
> restriction or encumbrance for any use - and you just need to pay for
> something (e.g. Oracle Linux) if you want support.
>
> But Naga, please don't take this email thread as authoritative. Double
> check with someone at Oracle. I think based on the 12c licensing doc
> they should be able to verify that you're free to use clusterware.
>
> -Jeremy
>
>
> On Wed, 20 Jul 2016 22:50:04 -0700 "Dimensional DBA" wrote:
> > I never claimed it wasn’t free. I stated you can’t use it for
> > whatever you please which was your implication of it being FREE, that
> > you must follow the legal documents. It is better to say that cluster
> > ware is free but carries with it legal encumbrances that make it not
> > so free.
>
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