[elephant-devel] bdb licencing

[Chris Dean]

"Ian Eslick" <eslick at csail.mit.edu> writes:
> 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.  

Well, Berkeley DB isn't under the GPL per se but that's not really the
important point.  Even Version 2 of the GPL (which is what everyone
uses) has no clause about releasing source code for a service/website.
It's only shipped products (not services) that must publish their
source if they are using GPL licensed software.

Version 3 of the GPL does have some clauses around service/website
usage but that's not yet finalized.

Cheers,
Chris Dean