On 24 May 2004, at 22:36, Leszek Gawron wrote:
Which means, IIUC, we could distribute stuff legally, but nobody would be able to shrink-wrap and close-source Cocoon without paying Sleepycat a fee. That is not what our license has been indicating throughout the years, and I honestly don't understand how all the other Sleepycat users (like Subversion) cope with this.Subversion is open source tool. You never distribute it with your system. So you are free to use it. Managing own commercial projects does not involve redistributing so license also is not violated.
I was suggesting what would happen if someone wraps Subversion into a closed-source product (for whatever stupid reason, like making a better M$ SourceSafe). The Subversion license allows this, but BDB, shipped with SVN, doesn't.
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