[elephant-devel] bdb licencing

[Ian Eslick]

On May 23, 2007, at 3:45 PM, Chris Dean wrote:

>
>> Am I right that I can't use elephant+bdb in closed source commercial
>> application without purchasing licence?
>
> IANAL, but my reading is that if you ship a closed source product you
> need a license for Berkeley DB.  If you have a service/web site (like
> Google, Yahoo, etc) my reading is that you do not need a license for
> Berkeley DB.

I think that Sleepycat, now Oracle clarified that distinction and  
that any public-facing for-profit website needs a license.  Robert  
may have more to say on this topic.

Ian