From owner-freebsd-current Tue May 2 8:31:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from ns.yogotech.com (ns.yogotech.com [206.127.79.126]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07FB337BBB1 for ; Tue, 2 May 2000 08:30:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nate@yogotech.com) Received: from nomad.yogotech.com (nomad.yogotech.com [206.127.79.115]) by ns.yogotech.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA02325; Tue, 2 May 2000 09:24:52 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate@nomad.yogotech.com) Received: (from nate@localhost) by nomad.yogotech.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA23506; Tue, 2 May 2000 09:24:51 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate) Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 09:24:51 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200005021524.JAA23506@nomad.yogotech.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Brad Knowles Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp , FreeBSD-CURRENT Mailing List Subject: Re: db 1.85 --> 2.x or 3.x? In-Reply-To: References: <10849.957266163@critter.freebsd.dk> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Sleepycats license is not FreeBSD compatible :-/ > > I don't understand. Reading > , it seems to me that FreeBSD > meets all the necessary requirements. Can someone who understands > the details of the licensing issues either explain the situation to > me, or provide pointers to references that do? Sure, I built a commercial application on FreeBSD. It looked up usernames (which use DB routines). Therefore, according to the licensing scheme, I must now give away the entire source code to my commercial application. Second issue. I use FreeBSD in an embedded system. In order to not *have* to distribute source code to my application, it's in my best interest to strip out any GNU and similar code from the system before I 'ship' it. (Which allows me to ship binaries to make the distribution of my product easier). However, I'm not using the newer DB routines, so I must now provide source code to *everything*, and pointing to the FreeBSD site is not adequate, because there are no time limitations, and FreeBSD might yank the distribution on their site before a customer stops using my hardware. Is that easier? Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message