2011/12/1 Jürgen Schmidt <[email protected]>: > On 12/1/11 1:53 PM, Rob Weir wrote: >> >> 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 > > i made the same observation and i think Oliver is taken right to clarify it > with legal. It would be of course nice we could use it ;-) >
Absolutely. And maybe we "patch" Wikipedia when we're done ;-) > Juergen > > >> >> 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. All rights reserved. >>> * >>> * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without >>> * modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions >>> * are met: >>> * 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright >>> * notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. >>> * 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright >>> * notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the >>> * documentation and/or other materials provided with the >>> distribution. >>> * 3. 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