Patching application server when no technical support

Hi guys,
I was asked this yesterday by a customer of mine and i was unable to answer him so thought id post on here before contacting Oracle direct.
He bought a 10x 10g iAS, 10 x10g DB licenses aprox 2 yrs ago.
He then installed them both, iAS on 101202. He downloaded all patchsets but never installed them at this time as wanted to get it up and running before patching.
After 12 months the company was not in a position to purchase tech support due to economic climate so currently do not have tech support.
They now have a error that is troubling them, this error was fixed in both patchset 2 and 3 which he downloaded and were both released at the time he was supported.
So the question he is asking is.. is he breaking any license agreement by patching the app server at this time, considering they were available when he had support?
Thanks in advance

So your saying he would be breaking his license contract by applying patches available when he purchased his licenses?
If he had aplied them on the last day of his support he would not have these issues and would be patched to 10g Patchset 3 without any license issue at all.
If he is in fact breaking the license contract what would happen if he needed to reinstall the oracle db at a later stage? He has paid for these licenses so is allowed to reinstall them.
Going one step further.. if he (for example) was on 10123 and needed a reinstall when he had no tech support would this mean he would only be able to put on 101202 as he was not allowed to patch?
i know in an ideal world its better to have support but im confused as to why if these were available when they had support why he cant put them on now?

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