[elephant-devel] QDBM Support

[Leslie P. Polzer]

> I recently purchased LispWorks for Windows. Downloaded Elephant and was able to make it
> work with BDB. Thanks (and congrats!) for such a nice package. I have heard that QDBM is
> much better than BDB in terms of performance and does not have the same licensing issues
> (there are royalty payments for embeding BDB in an application).

IANAL, but the licensing FAQ has a case that can be made be analogous to Elephant:

“Do I have to pay for a Berkeley DB license to use it in my Perl or Python scripts?

No, you may use the Berkeley DB open source license at no cost. The Berkeley DB open
source license requires that software that uses Berkeley DB be freely redistributable.
In the case of Perl or Python, that software is Perl or Python, and not your scripts.
Any scripts you write are your property, including scripts that make use of Berkeley DB.
None of the Perl, Python or Berkeley DB licenses place any restrictions on what you may
do with them.”[1]

Also, when we talk about QDBM, I must ask: do you know of its successor, Tokyo Cabinet[2]?

  Leslie


[1] http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/berkeley-db/htdocs/licensing.html
[2] http://tokyocabinet.sourceforge.net/

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