That sounds fine, I didn't research the commercial license extensively. I think I was thinking of the other problem for commercial sites...isn't it the case that the BDB GPL requires that a public-facing website based on BDB make available all the code that is linked with it? A commercial license would allow you to bypass this GPL restriction so you would need a license unless you wanted to make your source available. I'd be very happy to be wrong about this so I invite counterarguments!
Ian Ian Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile -----Original Message----- From: Chris Dean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 18:09:41 To:Elephant bugs and development <elephant-devel@common-lisp.net> Subject: Re: [elephant-devel] bdb licencing Joubert Nel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Reading the Oracle licensing page ... > 3) They specifically state that you don't need a license if your > application is not distributed to others. > > Legally, the clarification then needs to be around what constitutes > "distribution". Exactly. That is the document I read and it does seem to hinge on the definition of "distribution". > My (limited) legal knowledge would say that a public-facing website does > not constitute distribution of the application. The previously mention 2001 article by the then CEO of Sleepycat seems to agree with that interpretation. Cheers, Chris Dean _______________________________________________ elephant-devel site list elephant-devel@common-lisp.net http://common-lisp.net/mailman/listinfo/elephant-devel
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