On Feb 13, 2011, at 09:12, Edward Jaffe wrote:
>
> I would like to amend my statement to say that if the SRB runs strictly vendor
> product code, then this is a common approach and there are no issues. However,
> if the vendor code running in the SRB will invoke CUSTOMER code that would 
> have
> otherwise run in problem state, you could be looking at integrity issue.
> Furthermore, if the vendor's SRB is enabled for zIIP dispatch via an interface
> licensed to the vendor by IBM, then (as I understand it) the vendor is
> contractually prohibited from using that interface to cause the execution of
> anything other than the vendor's own product to be redirected to or run on a 
> zIIP.
>
IANAL, but "vendor's own product" might be a slippery concept.  Would
this preclude the vendor's using code licensed from a subcontractor?
If not, might the vendor engage the actual customer as a subcontractor
who licenses the payload code to the vendor, who then licenses it back
(exclusively) to the customer in order to circumvent the EULA?

-- gil

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