On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 10:53:39PM +0100, Sander Striker wrote: > 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.
Same here, but would love to have my understanding corrected, if it is a problem. Cheers, -g -- Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
