Re: Oracle 8i for Linux License Humor

[Raul Miller <moth@magenta.com>]

Brian Ristuccia <brianr@osiris.978.org> wrote:
> I figured we could occasionally use a little laugh on this list, so have a
> look at the following two URL's:
> 
> http://technet.oracle.com/tech/linux/ - Oracle's download page. Check out
> the license textarea -- you can put any license you want in there before
> clicking "I Accept" and Oracle still lets you download the software. 

Actually, you can already do this with any html -- simply save a
copy of the page, and edit it, maybe putting an href= in the base
page.

I think that just serves as a notice.  If they didn't explicitly
grant you the right to change the license then you don't have
copyright.

-- 
Raul