On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 6:15 AM, Oliver-Rainer Wittmann <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I think I was somehow to fast on my reaction regarding the license of the > used 3rd party component Berkeley DB.
Interesting. Wikipedia says it uses a strong copyleft license called "sleepycat": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleepycat_License But maybe that has changed? -Rob > Below you find the license text. > For me this license look very permissive regarding Apache's 3rd party > licensing policy. > > I will submit a corresponding JIRA-legal issue to get this license > categorized as category A. > > > Here is the license text, found in the used source tarball [1]. It is more > or less the same as the license text found at [2] for the recent version: > <license text> > /*- > * $Id: LICENSE,v 12.9 2008/02/07 17:12:17 mark Exp $ > */ > > The following is the license that applies to this copy of the Berkeley DB > software. For a license to use the Berkeley DB software under conditions > other than those described here, or to purchase support for this software, > please contact Oracle at [email protected]. > > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > /* > * Copyright (c) 1990,2008 Oracle. 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