| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> |
| Cc: | "Michael A(dot) Olson" <mao(at)sleepycat(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Berkeley DB license terms (was Re: Proposal...) |
| Date: | 2000-05-16 01:40:21 |
| Message-ID: | 200005160140.VAA04172@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> > Seems this changes our license more toward GPL. I don't think that is
> > going to be supportable by the group. I doubt we are willing to modify
> > our license in order to use the Sleepycat DB code.
>
> I don't know ... I read this as totally anti-GPL ... "you are more then
> welcome to distribute binary only, but then you have to pay us for use of
> our libraries" ...
>
> ... the only aspect that would worry me is if SleepCat were to change
> their license and make it more restrictive ...
But it ties the hands of binary-only distributors, or pay them. Not a
good choice.
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