Jon Stewart on 25 Oct 2003 06:23:27 -0000 |
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Re: [ALACPP] Sleepycat licensing |
> > On Friday, October 24, 2003, at 08:04 PM, Christopher Smith wrote: > > > There was some question last night as to the licensing covering some of > > Sleepycat's products. This page should prove enlightening: > > > > http://www.sleepycat.com/download/licensinginfo.shtml > > > > Looks like everything is under a BSD license. > > > > Actually, I found that page rather confusing, and not in line with how > I thought the BSD license works. > > For example, if I understand what they are saying correctly, a web app > running in a single co-lo is in the clear, but as soon as you set up a > redundant or distributed system at multiple co-los you have to release > your source code or purchase a license. That seems like an odd, and > very arbitrary, restriction. This is the page that I had read initially. If you read the license that they link to, it is not BSD. It is GPL, without the preamble and lunatic-speak; same idea, though. As another example: you would not be able to use Berkeley DB in any proprietary commercial software. Jon -- Jon Stewart Advanced Los Angeles C++ stew1@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.alacpp.org _______________________________________________ alacpp mailing list alacpp@xxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.ellipsis.cx/mailman/listinfo/alacpp