Is it Legal to use an APEX packaged application, improve it and Sell it?

Any thought on this is appreciated, I'm trying to get an answer from Oracle but no one is sure of the answer. There is this Sample Database Application which is great to build a small shop POS program.
Thank you

This is quite good question, there are several tools which have very decent start for building larger and better application for e.g. in-house usage.
But those improvements are very likely wasted when new versions of those packaged applications are released.
One option could be community contributed enhancements to packaged applications which are then accepted/rejected to next release of the packaged applications?
Other option could be commercial enhancements to packaged applications with some sort of 'certified to work in Apex5' stamp?
Of course the licensing could be a bit more clear for the vanilla Packaged Apps. I think most of use love to 'reverse engineer' what they have eaten
rgrds Paavo

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Hi Darsh,
I can't say that this was a good answer, but I addressed a similar question in this forum posting: https://forums.oracle.com/thread/2600958
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I am looking for a "FREE" Packaged Application that performs the following...
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The responses on this thread has sincerely exceeded my expectations.
The consolidation of all the apps is what I was looking for.
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InSum Solutions' blog : http://insum-apex.blogspot.com
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Is it legal to create packaged APEX applications and sell them?

Is it legal to create packaged APEX applications and sell them to Oracle DB licensed clients?
A.

No licensing applies to any environment where you have a live database. The exception is that you can try a product without license, but as soon as development of a product of developing/testing of an in-house solution is done, you need to be licensed. Being a partner changes this slightly assuming all parties involved are partners (one sigle tester from the outside shifts it back to full license mode).
Another situation where license is not needed is to use XE for which no license is required.
Yet one more way to have al low cost is to use Amazon AWS to set up an image with an included license. The cost per hour is really low so it may be a good model to not have to pay everything upfront.
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Edited by: ascheffer on Sep 30, 2011 5:11 PM

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