> What's the problem? Simply specify that open source > applications can use > the data while any closed source application must get an appropriate. > It's open if it's open and closed if it's closed. The > Sleepycat license > is here > http://www.opensource.org/licenses/sleepycat.php
The Sleepycat license is vendor and product specific. It refers to "DB software" (whatever that is) and includes the following warranty: "THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY SLEEPYCAT SOFTWARE ``AS IS'' AND...." The Sleepycat licenses is not reusable as is by other vendors. I notice that the Sleepycat license as published on the OSI website includes a copy of two other licenses, one probably the BSD license and the other a Harvard license. That's probably in error. I'm copying OSI's webmaster, because that probably needs to be corrected. /Larry Rosen -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3