* Julien Cristau: > On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 18:58:34 +0200, Nick Andrik wrote: > >> Since AGPLv3 is really similar to GPLv3 but mostly oriented for >> webapplications, would it make sense to contact Oracle with the >> concerns raised in this thread and ask for clarification and possible >> consideration to change to license to GPLv3 instead?
> GPLv3 would be just as bad. Changing a library from BSD to GPL is > something you just don't do. Previous versions of Berkeley DB have been released under the Sleepycat license, which is actually a copyleft license. It doesn't conflict with further restrictions (which weakens it somewhat), but it requires that "freely redistributable" source code is given to *all* recipients of the binaries, which is in a way stronger than the GPLv3 (although copyleft extends in different directions, so it's hard to two licenses as if there was just a single scale). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87r4fg3fhy....@mid.deneb.enyo.de