Re: [bdbje] [Licensing] Open Source verses Commercial Use

[Alan D. Cabrera]

On 7/24/2005 4:40 AM, Emmanuel Lecharny wrote: Hi ! On Sun, 2005-07-24 at 07:04 -0400, Noel J. Bergman wrote: The Sleepycat license is that if you don't have total source (essentially GPL) then you pay Sleepycat a fee Personally I'd recommend an approach where you have an option There is no such option. JE is a dead end. We do not pass along additional restrictions beyond the ALv2 (which means essentially no restrictions). I think that the best thing to do is validate backends without delivering them. There is no issue if you do that. Let's use JDBM as a kind of RI, bundled with the ApacheDS package, and let others use whatever they want, assuming they will donwload those backends and deal with IP issues by themselves. So we can work with JE, validate that ApacheDS works well with it, using an abstraction layer above it, avoiding licenses problem, and tell the community : "ApacheDS works well and is fully tested against JE, up to you to download JE" (or wathever DB). +1  Great idea. Regards, Alan