[p4] Using p4 protect to create a "public" user

[Quanah Gibson-Mount]

--On Thursday, October 11, 2007 9:45 AM +0200 "Oren Shemesh (oshemesh)" 
<oshemesh at cisco.com> wrote:

> I disagree - To the best of my knowledge, Perforce is perfectly fine
> with having a single read-only user to be used by many people who only
> need read-only access.

Reading the license, section 4, subsection D I assume is the issue at hand:

"The Program is configured by Perforce to support the number of users 
specified in Attachment D.  The Program is licensed on a Per Human Being 
basis, with the maximum number of users permitted to use the server being 
that quantity specified in Attachment D.  Customer understands that the 
Program enforces this limitation, and that any failure of the Program to 
perform in conformance with the Documentation in response to users in 
excess of the number specified in Attachment D is not a defect in the 
Program."

IANAL, but the intent seems pretty clear to me.  They only want the 
licensed number of users using Perforce.  p4d is supposed to ensure that 
only up to that many individuals use it.  I could see how setting up a 
public user violates that.  Although what's not entirely clear to me, is it 
to limit the number of users logged into p4d at one time, or to limit the 
total number of users period.  I'd guess the later, but again IANAL.

--Quanah


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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Principal Software Engineer
Zimbra, Inc
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