On 24 May 2004, at 20:07, Stefano Mazzocchi wrote:
Who's with me?
The Sleepycat license contains:
The following is the license that applies to this copy of the Berkeley
DB Java Edition software. For a license to use the Berkeley DB Java
Edition software under conditions other than those described here, or
to purchase support for this software, please contact Sleepycat Software
by email at [EMAIL PROTECTED], or on the Web at http://www.sleepycat.com.
and
* 3. Redistributions in any form must be accompanied by information on
* how to obtain complete source code for the DB software and any
* accompanying software that uses the DB software. The source code
* must either be included in the distribution or be available for no
* more than the cost of distribution plus a nominal fee, and must be
* freely redistributable under reasonable conditions. For an
* executable file, complete source code means the source code for all
* modules it contains. It does not include source code for modules or
* files that typically accompany the major components of the operating
* system on which the executable file runs.
... which is the same kind of commercial runtime penalty MySQL carries.
Which means, IIUC, we could distribute stuff legally, but nobody would be able to shrink-wrap and close-source Cocoon without paying Sleepycat a fee. That is not what our license has been indicating throughout the years, and I honestly don't understand how all the other Sleepycat users (like Subversion) cope with this.
</Steven> -- Steven Noels http://outerthought.org/ Outerthought - Open Source Java & XML An Orixo Member Read my weblog at http://blogs.cocoondev.org/stevenn/ stevenn at outerthought.org stevenn at apache.org
