[elephant-devel] bdb licencing

[Ian Eslick]

That sounds fine, I didn't research the commercial license extensively.  I think I was thinking of the other problem for commercial sites...isn't it the case that the BDB GPL requires that a public-facing website based on BDB make available all the code that is linked with it?  A commercial license would allow you to bypass this GPL restriction so you would need a license unless you wanted to make your source available.  I'd be very happy to be wrong about this so I invite counterarguments!

Ian

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-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Dean <ctdean at sokitomi.com>
Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 18:09:41 
To:Elephant bugs and development <elephant-devel at common-lisp.net>
Subject: Re: [elephant-devel] bdb licencing


Joubert Nel <joubert at joubster.com> writes:
> Reading the Oracle licensing page
...
> 3) They specifically state that you don't need a license if your
> application is not distributed to others.
>
> Legally, the clarification then needs to be around what constitutes
> "distribution". 

Exactly.  That is the document I read and it does seem to hinge on the
definition of "distribution".

> My (limited) legal knowledge would say that a public-facing website does
> not constitute distribution of the application. 

The previously mention 2001 article by the then CEO of Sleepycat seems
to agree with that interpretation.

Cheers,
Chris Dean
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