Bennett Todd scripsit: > The result is certainly something that doesn't have the flavour of > Open Source any more --- a company using it can now be forced to pay > SleepyCat, or stop using it, if they're using it at more than one > place.
Not so. The company can, however, be compelled to disgorge their source code to anyone who asks, not merely anyone who has the binary (as is true of the GPL). I think that this is reasonable, though I admit it pushes the envelope somewhat. -- "No, John. I want formats that are actually John Cowan useful, rather than over-featured megaliths that http://www.ccil.org/~cowan address all questions by piling on ridiculous http://www.reutershealth.com internal links in forms which are hideously [EMAIL PROTECTED] over-complex." --Simon St. Laurent on xml-dev -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3
