WLS License

All about Weblogic Server License

Weblogic Server 10.3.0 Onwards

Weblogic Server 10.3.0 onward, You don’t need to download & apply any license file for Weblogic. 

All available features are without any license file like unlimited number of CPU’s and unlimited no of users, as well as it’s not tied up with I.P address of the machine.

Hold on! No need to apply license on Weblogic physically doesn’t mean you don’t need any license for commercial use of Weblogic and you can just download and start using in production with n number of users and n number of CPU’s etc. You still have to purchase a license from Oracle, which you can say an agreement between you and Oracle about how many Users & CPU’s etc you are going to use. So, overall before buying Weblogic from Oracle you just have to identify your production requirement like no of users, CPU’s, Cores etc and then get an agreed license from oracle that you will not go beyond that in any case during utilization, and all terms, conditions and technical restrictions will specified in your license and agreement with Oracle.

Auditing Licensed Features

Further, to make sure your are running as per agreement and under compliance, a WebLogic Server Basic License Feature Usage Measurement script provided by the oracle, which you can in your production environment and see if you are running as per license agreement and under compliance. If you have authorized access to oracle support portal then you can download it from Doc ID 885587.1 otherwise please contact with Oracle for same.

Prior to Weblogic Server 10.3.0

You can download license for earlier versions of Weblogic products from below link.

http://www.oracle.com/us/support/licensecodes/bea/index.html

To apply Weblogic license –

• Download proper license file according to your weblogic version and licensed configurations
• Stop Weblogic server
• Rename your existing license.bea file ( under BEA_HOME )
• Rename new downloaded license file as license.bea file and copy under BEA_HOME
• Restart your weblogic server
• Verify logs and if server started properly and no erro.r observed in logs means your weblogic license applied successfully.

Upgrading Weblogic Service Packs or Versions

No new license needed if you are upgrading service packs on same versions.

For example, no license needed if you are upgrading Weblogic 9.2 to Weblogic 9.2 MP2, Weblogic 10.0 to Weblogic 10.0MP1, Weblogic 8.1SP2 to Weblogic 8.1 SP6 etc.

But if you are upgrading major versions like from 8.x to 9.x or 9.x to 10.x etc then you have to get agreement , download and apply new license file ( read first section of my this same article “Weblogic Server 10.3.0 Onwards” for same .

Development/UAT/Test License (Prior to 10.3.0)

Prior to Weblogic 10.3.0, Development license restricted to 5 client connections only. If you would like to test your Dev/Test environment for more connections then download new license file from http://licensecodes.oracle.com/bea.htmlafter accepting the terms and conditions.