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
