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This is all you have to go on: http://www.sunhelp.org/pipermail/rescue/2010-July/129405.html As far as you are concerned, it is very second-hand information. "Hearsay." That being said, it doesn't really matter, does it? Nobody's going to use sol10 in production without support. The idea of running a production server without updates ... If you *do* want to run sol10 without updates, here's the EULA, easily found by attempting to download sol10: https://cds.sun.com/is-bin/INTERSHOP.enfinity/WFS/CDS-CDS_SMI-Site/en_US/-/U SD/ViewLicense-Start?LicenseUUID=u4hIBe.pZZkAAAEmwcJtTJuH&ProductUUID=iVpIBe .p0GYAAAEkYRITBg3b&cnum=&evsref=&sln= Under "Permitted Use" it says "(a) Evaluation Use," "(b) Research and Instructional Use," "(c) Individual Use," "(d) Commercial Use" ... Granted, there's this whole concept of obtaining entitlement, which is entirely unclear, so it's confusing. If you want to run sol10 without support, you can easily argue "it's free for individual or commercial use." Or you just pay $400/yr to have a paid license with updates. But the whole discussion and argument is pointless and moot unless oracle decides to sue you. As long as you're not sufficiently large to register on oracle's radar, you're home free. Just run it, without updates, and calculate the probability of oracle suing you, and calculate the probability that you'd win the case, even if you did get sued. (Because the EULA does say it's permitted for your internal and commercial use, just like evaluation use.) _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
