<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Tzafrir Cohen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tzafrir@cohens.org.il">tzafrir@cohens.org.il</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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Suppose you got some code from Oracle under the terms of the OLLE<br>
(Oracle License for Library Evaluation), played with it a bit, and figured<br>
it is junk you shouldn't use. You team went on to use your own code<br>
instead.<br>
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A year later Oracle sues your company (over an unrelated issue). Both<br>
the Oracle lawyers and your company's lawyers look for problematic<br>
spots.<br>
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So, have you been contamination with Oracle-copyrighted code? Are you<br>
licensed to use it?<br></blockquote><div><br>Is this OLLE a real license or a hypothetical example of yours? I am no expert, but AFAIK Oracle do not provide source code, typically, and even restrict testing/evaluation/prototyping using their libraries in conjunction with GPL or other Open Source SW:<br>
<br><a href="http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/testcontent/standard-license-088383.html">http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/testcontent/standard-license-088383.html</a> <br><br>The typical evaluation case is "here is a library and the API documentation, sorry, no source code ever". Fewer contamination issues result.<br>
<br></div></div>-- <br>Oleg Goldshmidt | <a href="mailto:pub@goldshmidt.org">pub@goldshmidt.org</a><br>
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