The Sleepycat license is that if you don't have total source (essentially GPL) then you pay Sleepycat a fee (the code is essentially dual-licensed).
Personally I'd recommend an approach where you have an option - use JE by preference because I'd expect it to be high-quality with the ability to use another perhaps less quality implementation. I suspect (based on the type of work OctetString does - which is very similar to this project) - many implementations will use the code as a virtual-directory engine. That is use the LDAP interfaces to provide access to external DB's (like SAP or PeopleSoft) that are not normally LDAP ready. Mark On 7/23/05, Alex Karasulu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alex Karasulu wrote: > > > Florian Weimer wrote: > > > >> * Alex Karasulu: > >> > >> > >> > >>> Company A decides to integrate Apache Directory Server which now > >>> uses JE into their product which they sell. > >>> > >>> Does the license for JE require company A to have to license JE from > >>> SleepyCat? > >>> > >> > >> > >> If they don't provide source code to their product under some kind of > >> free software license, the answer seems to be yes. > >> > >> > >> > > So all the source. including the product code must be open? > > > Please disregard I prematurely hit send before completing this email. > > Alex > >
