[issue14759] Is LICENSES.txt up to date?

2012-05-09 Thread Jeff Laing
Jeff Laing jeffla...@gmail.com added the comment: @Jesús, as has been pointed out already, the Berkeley DB stuff is not part of Python 3 so I don't see any point in discussing this with Oracle. We don't actually use or need the bsddb module, it's just part of the standard runtime library

[issue14759] Berkeley DB License conditions are onerous (and poorly documented)

2012-05-08 Thread Jeff Laing
New submission from Jeff Laing jeffla...@gmail.com: As part of an audit of license compliance, I was looking at the terms in the LICENSE.txt that describe the Berkeley DB product. I had thought this would be under the standard Berkeley license, but Oracle have added their own zinger. * 3

[issue14759] Berkeley DB License conditions are onerous (and poorly documented)

2012-05-08 Thread Jeff Laing
Jeff Laing jeffla...@gmail.com added the comment: With all due respect, I think that the 2.7.3 License Page is still being actively used by people as a reference, and it should be accurate. I agree that the code developers can't do anything, but the documentation for all releases