Can anyone point me to an Oracle document that actually states that production use of the Oracle client is covered by the server license?
All of the documents I've found talk about how database is licensed, but nothing ever actually states that the client software is covered by the server license. I've found lots of posts where people say the client is covered by the server, but no response by a person who works for Oracle.
I have an Oracle database server I need to connect to on production. We need to use orapki to create the Oracle wallet for use with Oracle Data Access Component (ODAC). The DB server admin told me to download the full client from https://www.oracle.com/database/technologies/oracle19c-windows-downloads.html, but the license agreement that shows up when you do the download explicitly states that it may not be used on production.
I asked the server admin to provide the Client software and they stated they can't because their licenses are for their use, but I suspect they didn't actually check what their license covered. I'm hoping if I point to a document that states the client is covered by the database license they will provide the client software since it's their license covering it.
I've attempted to get a response to my licensing issue by contacting Oracle multiple times over the past couple weeks using multiple email addresses and the most I've got out of that is that someone will contact me back, but that hasn't happened yet.
I'd appreciate any help anyone can provide. Of course, if someone knows a better way to get orapki I'd love to know that too. I'm also looking into the openSSL solution, but that's proving harder than getting an answer to the client license question.