[elephant-devel] No reply from Oracle about the BDB issue...

Joubert Nel joubert at joubster.com
Fri Jun 15 23:09:58 UTC 2007


Hi Robert,

I also haven't received a reply.

I agree with your thoughts below, particularly because Elephant is
designed such that you can swap out the back-end if need be.

Joubert


On Fri, 2007-06-15 at 11:43, Robert L. Read wrote:
> I have not received an reply from Oracle to my email message asking
> about the 
> legal interpretation of the current BDB license.
> 
> Although I am in no position to give anyone legal advice, for my own
> for-profit company
> I will not be afraid to switch from Postgres to BDB if performance
> demands lead me to 
> do so.  I don't think hosting a commercial website counts as
> "redistribution" in this case.
> 
> 
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