[elephant-devel] bdb licencing

[Robert L. Read]

But the Oracle BDB now appears to be under a "BSD-style" license; in
what way is it GPLed?


On Thu, 2007-05-24 at 01:19 +0000, Ian Eslick wrote:

> 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
> 
> 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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