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I agree with Ian. Previously, one definitely required a license for any public-facing commercial website.<BR>
I have not researched any change that Oracle may or may not have made.<BR>
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On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 16:06 -0400, Ian Eslick wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">On May 23, 2007, at 3:45 PM, Chris Dean wrote:</FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">>> Am I right that I can't use elephant+bdb in closed source commercial</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">>> application without purchasing licence?</FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">> IANAL, but my reading is that if you ship a closed source product you</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> need a license for Berkeley DB. If you have a service/web site (like</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Google, Yahoo, etc) my reading is that you do not need a license for</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Berkeley DB.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">I think that Sleepycat, now Oracle clarified that distinction and </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">that any public-facing for-profit website needs a license. Robert </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">may have more to say on this topic.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Ian</FONT>
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