Oracle changed the Solaris license terms?
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From: Non scrivetemi on 21 Mar 2010 18:38 Ian Collins <ian-news(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > On 03/21/10 09:18 AM, Non scrivetemi wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Is Solaris now only a 30 day trial and after that you have to pay? Or > can you still download and use Solaris on x86 for free? > > > Um, the licensing information (from > http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/get.jsp) now says: > > "Please remember, your right to use Solaris acquired as a download is > limited to a trial of 90 days, unless you acquire a service contract for > the downloaded Software." > > Does anyone have a copy of what it used to say? > > -- > Ian Collins Thanks Ian. Sorry I should have said 3 months not 30 days, I knew there was a 3 in there somewhere just didn't remember how many zeros. I don't know what this means to me the home user. I've been playing around with Solaris 10 since they first made it freely available. Now it looks like I'm not allowed to use new versions? Is this the death of Solaris for home users and developers? Does anybody know if it stops working after 90 days or they just reserve the right to sue people?
From: Bill Waddington on 21 Mar 2010 20:18 On Sun, 21 Mar 2010 16:01:39 -0600, Canuck57 <Canuck57(a)nospam.com> wrote: >On 21/03/2010 11:45 AM, Casper H.S. Dik wrote: [snip] >> SATA works, RAID does not. You don't need to use IDE mode. >> >> Casper > >I don't argue that some SATA chipsets work, just that many in the very >popular ICH[7/8/9/10]R family do not. Even Sun says: > >Cite: >http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/hcts/install_check.jsp > >Line: >The disk is a SATA disk. Change the BIOS to make the SATA controller >work in legacy or compatible mode. > >So legacy mode is needed, provided your system has it. If it does not >you are SOL. Lots of PCs like this. Wandering a little farther OT, do you have some examples? I'm not arguing this, but my i7 EVGA board with "South Bridge: Intel 82801JR ICH10R" runs S10 and Open Solaris happily in AHCI mode for my all-SATA drives, hard and optical. One counter example doesn't disprove your statement, but certainly _this_ popular implementation is OK. Just curious, Bill -- William D Waddington william.waddington(a)beezmo.com "Even bugs...are unexpected signposts on the long road of creativity..." - Ken Burtch
From: Silvester Man on 22 Mar 2010 00:04 On Mar 21, 4:28 am, Ian Collins <ian-n...(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > Um, the licensing information (fromhttp://www.sun.com/software/solaris/get.jsp) now says: > > "Please remember, your right to use Solaris acquired as a download is > limited to a trial of 90 days, unless you acquire a service contract for > the downloaded Software." I have just checked, those lines seem to have disappeared now.
From: Ian Collins on 22 Mar 2010 00:07 On 03/22/10 05:04 PM, Silvester Man wrote: > On Mar 21, 4:28 am, Ian Collins<ian-n...(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >> Um, the licensing information (fromhttp://www.sun.com/software/solaris/get.jsp) now says: >> >> "Please remember, your right to use Solaris acquired as a download is >> limited to a trial of 90 days, unless you acquire a service contract for >> the downloaded Software." > > I have just checked, those lines seem to have disappeared now. Nope, it's still there. -- Ian Collins
From: Silvester Man on 22 Mar 2010 01:25
On Mar 22, 12:07 pm, Ian Collins <ian-n...(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > On 03/22/10 05:04 PM, Silvester Man wrote: > > > On Mar 21, 4:28 am, Ian Collins<ian-n...(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > > >> Um, the licensing information (fromhttp://www.sun.com/software/solaris/get.jsp) now says: > > >> "Please remember, your right to use Solaris acquired as a download is > >> limited to a trial of 90 days, unless you acquire a service contract for > >> the downloaded Software." > > > I have just checked, those lines seem to have disappeared now. > > Nope, it's still there. Nevermind, I have found the lines. However I find the statements contradictory on the licensing information page. These are all mentioned in the same page: "In order to use the Solaris operating system for perpetual commercial use, each system running Solaris must be expressly licensed to do so. An Entitlement Document comprises such license and is delivered to you either with a new Sun system or from Sun Services as part of your service agreement." "The registration process to receive an Entitlement Document is part of the Solaris download process, with the Entitlement Document being returned to you via e-mail." "Please remember, your right to use Solaris acquired as a download is limited to a trial of 90 days, unless you acquire a service contract for the downloaded Software." So do we need a "license" or a "service contract" to run Solaris for "perpetual commercial use"? Is the entitlement document obtained through download good enough or does it have to come with "new Sun system or from Sun Services as part of your service agreement"? Are we still free to use Solaris without a service contract for non- commercial use? |