It surrounded all over the world and confused many of Solaris/OpenSolaris guys. However, I wonder how many guys checked "Software License Agreement" of Solaris OS which considered more legal.
http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/licensing/sla.xml Now, still I can read this document and find about use of Solaris OS on section 3. When I tried to download Solaris10 DVD image yesterday, SLA was displayed. > 3. Permitted Use. > > As selected in your Entitlement, one or more of the following Permitted Uses > will > apply to your use of Software. Unless you have an Entitlement that expressly > permits it, you may not use Software for any of the other Permitted Uses. If > you > don't have an Entitlement, or if your Entitlement doesn't cover additional > software > delivered to you, then such software is for your Evaluation Use. > > (a) Evaluation Use. You may evaluate Software internally for a period of 90 > days > from your first use. > > (b) Research and Instructional Use. You may use Software internally to design, > develop and test, and also to provide instruction on such uses. > > (c) Individual Use. You may use Software internally for personal, individual > use. > > (d) Commercial Use. You may use Software internally for your own commercial > purposes. > > (e) Service Provider Use. You may make Software functionality accessible (but > not by providing Software itself or through outsourcing services) to your end > users > in an extranet deployment, but not to your affiliated companies or to > government > agencies. According to Ben Rockwood's blog, change some sentence was reported. http://www.cuddletech.com/blog/pivot/entry.php?id=1120 > Please remember, your right to use Solaris acquired as a download is limited > to > a trial of 90 days, unless you acquire a service contract for the downloaded > Software. It is obscure what 'service contract' means in this context. That might be considered some contract such as 'Solaris Subscription' or other premium subscription programs, however with SLA, also might be considered 'getting Entitlement'. > 3. Permitted Use. > ... > If you don't have an Entitlement, or if your Entitlement doesn't cover > additional > software delivered to you, then such software is for your Evaluation Use. I think this change show nothing clearly, we must just follow SLA of Solaris OS. Also I think It is not clever dancing with non-official information or some rumors. In addition, Oracle appended post script to SLA. > Oracle is reviewing the Sun product roadmap and will provide guidance to > customers in accordance with Oracle's standard product communication policies. I am looking forward Oracle to make enough guidance. Lack of information bring confusion and unneeded rumors. Hiroshi Chonan -- Hiroshi Chonan <[email protected]> Tokyo OpenSolaris User Group co-Leader SCA # OS0255 2010/3/22 Aidan Lawn <[email protected]>: > I just found this out, I don't know if it was announced or not but its news > to me. > The official license can be read here: > > http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/popup.jsp?info=17 > > The key bit is: > > Please remember, your right to use Solaris acquired as a download is limited > to a trial of 90 days, unless you acquire a service contract for the > downloaded Software. > > Does anyone know when this changed? I just deployed two Solaris 10 servers > with the plan of only applying the free patches. I'm now planning to rebuild > when opensolaris 2010.03 is released as this project was scoped with no > license costs. > -- > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
