From owner-freebsd-current Tue May 2 8: 0:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9703337B7DD for ; Tue, 2 May 2000 08:00:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA07759; Tue, 2 May 2000 10:00:20 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 10:00:20 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Forrest Aldrich Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, Poul-Henning Kamp Subject: Re: db 1.85 --> 2.x or 3.x? Message-ID: <20000502100020.B29588@dan.emsphone.com> References: <10849.957266163@critter.freebsd.dk> <200005021424.KAA73367@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <20000502104034.G3818@drama.navipath.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.1.12i In-Reply-To: <20000502104034.G3818@drama.navipath.com>; from "Forrest Aldrich" on Tue May 2 10:40:34 GMT 2000 X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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