Database & Programming Wabler on 19 Nov 2006 05:10 pm
Oracle and their TOS/Export restrictions
If you decide to use Oracle…
You must follow the following restrictions:
1. You must not be a terrorist or Communist:
“You are not a citizen, national, or resident of, and are not under control of, the government of Cuba, Iran, Sudan, Libya, North Korea, Syria, nor any country to which the United States has prohibited export.”
2. You cant be friends or business partners with Communists or Terrorists:
“You will not download or otherwise export or re-export the Programs, directly or indirectly, to the above mentioned countries nor to citizens, nationals or residents of those countries.”
3. You cannot be a felon/national/trafficker of the type:
“You are not listed on the United States Department of Treasury lists of Specially Designated Nationals, Specially Designated Terrorists, and Specially Designated Narcotic Traffickers, nor are you listed on the United States Department of Commerce Table of Denial Orders.”
4. You can’t make nuclear or biological weapons with it:
“You will not use the Programs for, and will not allow the Programs to be used for, any purposes prohibited by United States law, including, without limitation, for the development, design, manufacture or production of nuclear, chemical or biological weapons of mass destruction.”
5. You can only use it for one-time development of a prototype of your application:
“use the programs for your own internal data processing or for any commercial or production purposes, or use the programs for any purpose except the development of a single prototype of your application”
6. You can’t train your employees who are helping you build your application:
[you cannot] “use the programs to provide third party training”
7. You can’t tell anyone how “fast” your program runs with the Oracle database:
[you may not] “disclose results of any program benchmark tests without our prior consent”
Site URL: Oracle TOS - Export Restrictions
