Update on Development Licenses
Submitted by Niall Litchfield on Fri, 07/27/2007 - 08:36.
So I was wrong about learning 'hands-on' using otn downloads. The Software download page on OTN has been updated with some clear and straightforward language that now expressly permits the use of full oracle software for self study purposes. I'm really pleased that this is now expressly stated rather than generally understood (as for example by me here). Thanks to Justin Kestelyn for making this change.
I'll undoubtedly be proven wrong, but I don't believe there is another major software vendor that is as generous in it's support of self-study and prototyping.
Yeahh that was really nice.
Yeahh that was really nice. Looking at latest trend of events - such as possibility of OTN e-mail change at least partially (after 4-5 years), Oracle response about AWR and this problem about misunderstanding about licences I'd say that something has changed inside Oracle. And of course the trend is to the right!
I largely agree, Gints
Though it seems only fair to say that the AWR thing, whilst it may have been accelerated a bit by Mark's letter, was clearly in the works for longer, look at the revision history in the file for example.
Niall Litchfield Site Owner orawin.info
An excellent improvment
That's a great piece of clarification on the download page, since people have misquoted/misunderstand/etc the whole development licencing text for as long as I can remember.
Kudos to Oracle for concisely summing it up rather than forcing people to read through 26 pages of legalese-text to find the answer to what should be a straightforward question.
John.
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