Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 10:00:20 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: Forrest Aldrich <forrie@navipath.com> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Subject: Re: db 1.85 --> 2.x or 3.x? Message-ID: <20000502100020.B29588@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20000502104034.G3818@drama.navipath.com>; from "Forrest Aldrich" on Tue May 2 10:40:34 GMT 2000 References: <v0422080ab53464df3042@[195.238.1.121]> <10849.957266163@critter.freebsd.dk> <200005021424.KAA73367@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <20000502104034.G3818@drama.navipath.com>
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In the last episode (May 02), Forrest Aldrich said: > I've been curious about this. Would someone clarify what in this > license prevents FreeBSD from including it, at some level? Basically, the part that says > If you redistribute your application outside of your site and your > source code is not freely available and redistributable by others, > then you require a commercial license from Sleepycat Software. > Contact us for commercial licensing terms and pricing. .. means that a user that wanted to use FreeBSD in a commercial application would not be able to simply sell his product; he would have to get a license from Sleepycat. Since FreeBSD use Berkeley DB for passwd.db and other system databases, we would have to provide DB 3 for non-commercial users and DB 1.85 for commercial users. Neither DB 2 or 3 provide any features that FreeBSD needs (concurrent multi-user modification and transactions), so there's no great need to replace our current DB. Another big personal minus for me is that neither DB 2 or DB 3 will compile at all under DOS, so I can't write portable programs with them. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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