From owner-freebsd-current Tue May 2 9:28:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from urban.iinet.net.au (urban.iinet.net.au [203.59.24.231]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69F5E37B5B1 for ; Tue, 2 May 2000 09:28:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from popserver-02.iinet.net.au (popserver-02.iinet.net.au [203.59.24.148]) by urban.iinet.net.au (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id AAA25743; Wed, 3 May 2000 00:25:16 +0800 Received: from jules.elischer.org (reggae-09-186.nv.iinet.net.au [203.59.67.186]) by popserver-02.iinet.net.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id AAA21827; Wed, 3 May 2000 00:25:02 +0800 Message-ID: <390EFFC5.52BFA1D7@elischer.org> Date: Tue, 02 May 2000 09:18:13 -0700 From: Julian Elischer X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brad Knowles Cc: Dan Nelson , Forrest Aldrich , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, Poul-Henning Kamp Subject: Re: db 1.85 --> 2.x or 3.x? References: <10849.957266163@critter.freebsd.dk> <200005021424.KAA73367@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <20000502104034.G3818@drama.navipath.com> <20000502100020.B29588@dan.emsphone.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Brad Knowles wrote: > > At 10:00 AM -0500 2000/5/2, Dan Nelson wrote: > > > .. 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. > I asked the Keith about this and he said it was wrong.. (to my memory). I recall he said that as it would be grandfathered into freeBSD, (because we had 1.x already) and that anyone running their software under freeBSD could do so without added licencing, because it was already present on the platform. -- __--_|\ Julian Elischer / \ julian@elischer.org ( OZ ) World tour 2000 ---> X_.---._/ presently in: Perth v To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message