[elephant-devel] bdb licencing

[Robert L. Read]

I agree with Ian.  Previously, one definitely required a license for any
public-facing commercial website.
I have not researched any change that Oracle may or may not have made.


On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 16:06 -0400, Ian Eslick wrote:

> 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
> 
> 
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