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But the Oracle BDB now appears to be under a "BSD-style" license; in what way is it GPLed?<BR>
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On Thu, 2007-05-24 at 01:19 +0000, Ian Eslick wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">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!</FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">From: Chris Dean <<A HREF="mailto:ctdean@sokitomi.com">ctdean@sokitomi.com</A>></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 18:09:41 </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">To:Elephant bugs and development <<A HREF="mailto:elephant-devel@common-lisp.net">elephant-devel@common-lisp.net</A>></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Subject: Re: [elephant-devel] bdb licencing</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Joubert Nel <<A HREF="mailto:joubert@joubster.com">joubert@joubster.com</A>> writes:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Reading the Oracle licensing page</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">...</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> 3) They specifically state that you don't need a license if your</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> application is not distributed to others.</FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Legally, the clarification then needs to be around what constitutes</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> "distribution". </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Exactly. That is the document I read and it does seem to hinge on the</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">definition of "distribution".</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> My (limited) legal knowledge would say that a public-facing website does</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> not constitute distribution of the application. </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">The previously mention 2001 article by the then CEO of Sleepycat seems</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">to agree with that interpretation.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Cheers,</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Chris Dean</FONT>
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