On Mon, 2004-02-23 at 22:25, Jim Jagielski wrote: > Joe Orton wrote: > > > > Bringing this up in the appropriate forum. IANAL, but... > > > > gdbm is licensed under the GNU GPL. apr_dbm_gdbm.c uses the GDBM > > interface, hence is a work based on GDBM, hence all of apr-util must be > > redistributed only under the terms of the GPL. > > > > We just use the gdbm API, don't we? As such, I don't think that > GPL applies. If it did, wouldn't PHP/Perl/Python, etc all need > to be re-distributed under GPL? We don't require it, but instead > allow it to be used if available. If a 3rd party takes APR and > compiles it so it *requires/uses* gdbm, then GPL kicks in. After > all, we aren't redistributing it.
This is my understanding aswell. Sander
