Gervase Markham wrote:
[....]. The problematic section is the following:

"Redistributions in any form must be accompanied by information on how to obtain complete source code for the DB software and any accompanying software that uses the DB software."

If a distributor of Mozilla, e.g. (for simplicity) Netscape, is using code under this license, they would have to make available the source code for their entire product. [....]

Mitchell Baker wrote: > Yes, I think this captures it. This is the dual-license model that > Sleepycat and MySql use.

Did you both miss Keith Bostic's answer about that part of the licence in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ?
Perl has the same problem, and it could be solved in that case.


Keith Bostic :
This gives us some leeway, since we get to interpret what "using the software" means. For example, we have stated that Perl scripts aren't "using Berkeley DB"; the software that "uses" DB
is the Perl interpreter, not the Perl script.


If we state that NSS/Mozilla is the "user" of Berkeley DB, does
that solve the problem?
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