Hi Dean
What you are doing is not a breach of the license. Connect, process,
Disconnect and forget is OK.
However if you had persistence in the UvBasic program where the past
activity of that web user is recorded and then used in a future action then
you may be crossing the line.
What people are doing is through special programs and queuing where they can
run several users continuously with several background processes that stay
active. This is what IBM has frowned upon.
User1 ------- ------- Process1
\ /
User2 ------------ Multiplex 1xU2 License ------------- Process2
/ \
User 3 ------ -------- Process3
Understand that this equates to a loss of revenue to IBM and sooner or later
one should expect that they will take action.
This is not an ethics issue; it falls under the rules of Piracy ie running
one Microsoft Word on multiple PCs. The criminal and civil actions apply to
the customer as much as they do to the partner that sells the solution, so
one has to tread very carefully down this path. Worldwide IBM, Microsoft
and a number of vendors have formed a piracy coalition hiring lawyers and
that works with Governments and law enforcement to attack piracy. Large
fines and jail sentences have been given to suppliers committing piracy and
CIOs' have lost jobs and CIOs' and Companies have been fined for breaching
license agreements. Under SOX this is becoming a bigger issue.
One cannot pretend the rules are not there, there should be activities to
ensure special licensing arrangements are in place for 3rd party
applications as they are for RedBack.
Regards
David Jordan
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