Rayme Jernigan wrote:
Well, yes and no... it's a little confusing. There's "Cloudscape," and then there's "Derby." Cloudscape, which has been around for years, begat Derby, which was released to Apache under the Apache license where it is in the Apache "incubator"... sort of a half-way house for incoming software. So Derby is open source, and source code is available under the Apache license v2.0.
Yes, but for all practical intents and purposes Cloudscape == Derby, at the moment. Unless IBM has already made significant changes in the code and issued a new "branded" release, since the original release to the ASF.
> Cloudscape is the IBM supported version... if you care about > IBM support, you'd want this version. I believe they're doing it this > way do they can control what they need to support.
Probably so. That really just makes sense, and it seems to be a pretty standard model for companies looking to make money from code which is nominally "free." Release it to the world, let it develop as open-source, and then occassionally take a snap-shot of the code, do any clean-up / value-add stuff, and then release it as a commercial product. Of course the interesting thing is that anybody could do the exact same thing, even "Bob's Screen Door Repair and Relational Databases, LLC." So what IBM is really selling in a sense is their reputation (versus Bob, for example).
TTYL,
Phil -- North Carolina - First In Freedom
Free America - Vote Libertarian www.lp.org
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