In fact, Chris, the license expressly states: you and Oracle agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction and jurisdiction of the courts of San Francisco, San Mateo or Santa Clara counties in California in all disputes arising from or related to that agreement. So yes, the conditions apply to Sydney, Melbourne, Afghanistan and, in fact, Timbuctu, and you (and everyone else) have no doubt that the conditions apply. And no, Oracle Reps are not lawyers – but they are agents for the company, and in court, the company would be linked to their actions (unless they are expressly prohibited by the dismissal of the worker). Therefore, you can take your word at face value: you can`t be lawyers, but your decisions bind the company. And as I just posted on your own blog (I`d like these things to stay in the same place!), the production of a FAQ is definitely welcome… but that`s not right, to a large extent. What it will allow will of course be allowed (mainly because of the same agency rule as above). But it cannot (by definition) deal with all the circumstances and variations, and what it does not explicitly allow is not yet open to interpretation and argument in the courts. Also, at the end of the day, the license itself must be buried, and no amount of FAQ writing will change that. It is therefore always necessary that we all understand the true « operational document. » The NSW Rental Court produces a very nice and simple English rental guide – but it`s no substitute for reading the actual rental agreement if you`re asked to sign it! We may include additional programs with an order that can only be used for testing purposes. You have 30 days from the delivery date to evaluate these programs. Any use of these programs after the 30-day trial period requires you to obtain the corresponding license.
Licensed programs for testing purposes are made available « as planned » and we do not offer technical support or guarantees for these programs. You still haven`t speculated as to why there is a program such as Oracle Partner Network, which offers rules for using the software that go beyond what is expressly granted in the OTN download license (development of individual prototypes). EnterpriseDB did not come out and said if: A) We do not have Oracle instances in our laboratories or B) We have run the Oracle instance in our laboratories and we have the license to do so These are the topics on which I blog. I thought about the broader licensing issues that seem to have come back this morning. The problem with Oracle`s license is that it is a) written in the lawyer`s speech, and b) even if the conditions give a positive (you can do so), they seem to open up more negatives (but does that mean?).