Splunk Forwarder Licensing Question

[mbauer599]

I'm looking to automate the deployment of the splunk using ansible on systems that do not have internet connectivity (and in some cases package managers). To this end, i'm wondering about the licensing issues with unpacking the splunk forwarder .tgz into a manual ansible deployment script and posting that publicly on GitHub for others who may have a similar issue?

[maciep]

I'm not going to lie, I don't speak legaleze and have no idea what this actually means, but maybe relevant? Nonetheless, I would suggest reaching out to Splunk directly. I doubt you want to take the word from someone here....

https://www.splunk.com/en_us/legal/splunk-software-license-agreement.html

LICENSE RESTRICTIONS. Unless otherwise expressly permitted by Splunk, Customer will not and Customer has no right to: (a) copy any Splunk Materials (except as required to run the Software and for reasonable backup purposes); (b) modify, adapt, or create derivative works of any Splunk Materials; (c) rent, lease, loan, resell, transfer, sublicense, distribute, disclose or otherwise provide any Splunk Materials to any third party; (d) decompile, disassemble or reverse-engineer any Splunk Materials, or determine or attempt to determine any source code, algorithms, methods or techniques embodied in any Splunk Materials, except to the extent expressly permitted by applicable law notwithstanding a contractual prohibition to the contrary; (e) access or use any Disabled Materials; (f) provide to any third party the results of any benchmark tests or other evaluation of any Splunk Materials without Splunk’s prior written consent; (g) attempt to disable or circumvent any license key or other technological mechanisms or measures intended to prevent, limit or control use or copying of, or access to, any Splunk Materials (including in order to gain access to any Disabled Materials); (h) remove or obscure any copyright, trademark, patent, or other proprietary notices, legends or symbols from any Splunk Materials; (i) exceed the Licensed Capacity or violate other license limitations identified in Exhibit B or elsewhere in this Agreement; (j) separately use any of the applicable features and functionalities of the Splunk Materials with external applications or code not furnished by Splunk or any data not processed by the Software, except otherwise specifically permitted in the Documentation; (k) otherwise access or use any Splunk Materials except as expressly authorized in this Agreement; or (l) encourage or assist any third party to do any of the foregoing. Customer acknowledges that the Software may be configured to display warnings, reduce available functionality, and/or cease functioning if unauthorized or improper use is detected, including if the Term expires or the Licensed Capacity is reached or exceeded.