But the Oracle BDB now appears to be under a "BSD-style" license; in what way is it GPLed?
On Thu, 2007-05-24 at 01:19 +0000, Ian Eslick wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > elephant-devel site list > elephant-devel@common-lisp.net > http://common-lisp.net/mailman/listinfo/elephant-devel
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