I casually read through some licencing details for db4o, and their explanation is all fine ... Then they discuss obligations, and the first paragraph which i agree with in the sence that one should feel obligated to provide the source to the entire community, and not just people whom are recipients of the GPL'ed software (if possible).
The second paragraph, just blows IMHO. " When you open source your application using db4o under the GPL, it is important that you make db4o and your derivative work - in source code - available to ALL db4o users, including the db4o Community who provided this product free of charge. It is not sufficient to publish your sources only to the users of your modified product. Your source code must be available to all users in the db4o community. As such, db4objects may ask you from time to time on behalf of the community to show evidence of free, public access to your source code in all its versions. As a GPL licensee, you hold the responsibility to reply readily to this request, or any other request from a db4o Community member or the Free Software Foundation, which acts as the GPL enforcing agency. " http://www.db4o.com/about/company/legalpolicies/gplfaq.aspx Any thoughts? Regards, Tov Are Jacobsen _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
