> I think it's a lot worse. It's not just > non-production use, it's only licensed for software > development, and only for use by a single person. I > can't think of many places where you could actually > use it. All of my software developers need to allow > someone else onto their machines from time to time. > In most cases home use isn't software development. I > don't think you could use it to assess Solaris 11, > since (1) that isn't software development and (2) > you'd normally need to have more than one person use > it. > > With Sun you could say "well, their lawyers went > overboard. They don't really mean that." With Oracle > I strongly recommend against such an approach. > > "only for the purpose of developing, testing, > prototyping and demonstrating your applications, and > not for any other purpose." > > " The Programs may be installed on one computer only, > and used by one person"
Hi, I'm studying computer science and I wanted to use solaris 11 ex at home to learn solaris, that may count as developing, since i will be coding and testing and demonstrating to myself that i can code a decent program:-) I may be reading to much in to the license,however, i found another clause,it may be of some concern to a few, is oracle, has the right to audit the use of the Programs, i don't know how In my opinion the way this license was written is like they are limiting the use to a point where the user has to to buy support. I love open source, free(freedom) software and this going against that. the clause: LICENSE RIGHTS We may audit your use of the Programs. Program documentation, if available, may be accessed online at http://otn.oracle.com/docs. http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/licenses/solaris-cluster-express-license-167852.html Regards Edward -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
