Hi there, let me get back to you on that in a few days, need to talk to some more educated sources on that in order to to say anything incorrect.
Cheers, /peter neubauer VP Product Development, Neo Technology GTalk: neubauer.peter Skype peter.neubauer Phone +46 704 106975 LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/in/neubauer Twitter http://twitter.com/peterneubauer http://www.neo4j.org - Your high performance graph database. http://www.thoughtmade.com - Scandinavia's coolest Bring-a-Thing party. On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 4:51 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > So, in this case the free commercial license would be the only option. > > I have been working on an AGPL Clojure interface to Neo4j (but it's a bit out > of date at the moment). There are other forks licensed in public domain. It > seems that licensing them under something else then AGPL is strictly speaking > illegal? However, AGPL prevents the ones who purchase a commercial license > from using the interface. I suppose another license would be needed for that. > A bit unpractical situation. > > m. > > > Craig Taverner [[email protected]] kirjoitti: >> I believe that according to the spirit of the GPL/AGPL (and perhaps the >> letter too), the correct implementation of option one would require writing >> an alternative to Neo4j. Someone else mentioned 'glue code'. In principle >> your application should be able to do its job (or at the very least start up >> and run) without Neo4j, and then the user would download and install Neo4j >> themselves to achieve an 'upgrade'. >> >> Exactly what the glue code is, or the alternative to Neo4j is, depends on >> your application. If the application only uses Neo4j for some limited >> features, perhaps it is good enough to just not have those features work. >> But if a graph database, or graph data model, is central to your >> applications purpose, then you probably need an alternative to neo4j for a >> distributable open source release. >> >> I am not a lawyer, and I might be entirely wrong here, but I have a strong >> suspicion that distributing an application that cannot work at all, until >> the user downloads and installs the Neo4j component, would not pass muster. >> >> (P.S. all of the above is assuming the embedded Neo4j, and therefor >> 'linking' to Neo4j). >> _______________________________________________ >> Neo4j mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user > > _______________________________________________ > Neo4j mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user > _______________________________________________ Neo4j mailing list [email protected] https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user
