Right. This would be a BSD-like license *except* for the Oracle requirement about what source code must be made available. That's the toxic bit.
-----Original Message----- From: TJ Frazier [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2011 10:43 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: License of used 3rd party component Berkeley DB - clarification needed On 12/1/2011 12:07, Mathias Bauer wrote: > Moin Oliver, > > http://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html#category-x > > especially mentions the Sleepycat License (this is the license of BDB). > So there should be no doubt that it is not AL compatible. > > According to > > http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html > > it it GPL compatible. > > Regards, > Mathias Are my suspicions correct, that we actually make very little use of the capabilities of a DB? Maybe we could just do what I (and other lazy bums) do: put the data in a spreadsheet! ;-) /tj/ > > On 01.12.2011 12:15, Oliver-Rainer Wittmann wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I think I was somehow to fast on my reaction regarding the license of >> the used 3rd party component Berkeley DB. >> 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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