GPL as an evaluation license

[Oleg Goldshmidt]

On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir at cohens.org.il>wrote:

>
> Suppose you got some code from Oracle under the terms of the OLLE
> (Oracle License for Library Evaluation), played with it a bit, and figured
> it is junk you shouldn't use.  You team went on to use your own code
> instead.
>
> A year later Oracle sues your company (over an unrelated issue).  Both
> the Oracle lawyers and your company's lawyers look for problematic
> spots.
>
> So, have you been contamination with Oracle-copyrighted code? Are you
> licensed to use it?
>

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:

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/testcontent/standard-license-088383.html

The typical evaluation case is "here is a library and the API documentation,
sorry, no source code ever". Fewer contamination issues result.

-- 
Oleg Goldshmidt | pub at goldshmidt.org
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