[elephant-devel] CLSQL Store

[alain.picard at accenture.com]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ian Eslick [mailto:eslick at media.mit.edu] 
> Running BDB behind a website doesn't count as a 
> 'distribution' that requires disclosure of the website 
> source.  The cgi discussion is a sub-case of this.
> 
> This wouldn't apply to selling website frameworks or desktop 
> software, of course.
> 
> Of course if you are going to be making money it would be 
> worthwhile to get a legal opinion on this.
> > I meant the next paragraph in the same document:
> > ----
> > Do I have to pay for a Berkeley DB license to use it in my Perl or 
> > Python scripts?
> >
> > I don't think that CL is anyhow worse than Python or Perl, and 
> > situation seems to be pretty much the same. For a Perl, BDB 
> connector 
> > is a standalone module, as I understand, for Python it is 
> included in 
> > standard  distribution. You can easily make
> > SBCL+Elephant bundle,
> > for example, and claim that it is this bundly which uses 
> BDB, and not 
> > your scripts -- it would be same logic as in Oracle's 
> statement above.
> >
> > Of course, it is a question what is qualified to be a "script" and 
> > what is "software" (and if it makes sense to take such 
> distinction at 
> > all).

OK.  I'm interested to hear you guys think this way.
So you think if I package the software as a SBCL+LLGPL
utils/BDB+BerkeleyDB,
I could redistribute that "core" as open source, and run
my "script" (i.e. my website) "on top of" that.

I think speaking to lawyers would still not really resolve the
issue; the aim isn't simply to be prepared to win a lawsuit;
the aim is to never get sued in the first place.  For that to
happen, I'd be more interested in the actual intent of the license
holder (i.e. Oracle), so they'd have to be contacted to bless
this interpretation.

Anyway, thanks for the response!  This is all highly relevant!

  --alain



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