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From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
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Subject: Re: db 1.85 --> 2.x or 3.x?
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Thomas David Rivers wrote:
> 
> >
> > 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.
> 
>  Ah - but that's "running under FreeBSD" - what about taking
>  the FreeBSD source and using it in a different product...
> 
>  Just what does "running under FreeBSD" mean, anyway?
> 
>  If I sell a black box and use FreeBSD as the internal OS, but
>  don't call it FreeBSD - is it "running under FreeBSD?"

yes, because I recall that it was for precisely that reason
I asked him..  (Whistle Interjet)
I should check again though because I may be misremembering

> 
>  What if, for example, what if a product came together that
>  was the Linux kernel with the FreeBSD command set?  Is that
>  "running under FreeBSD?" 

I doubt it.


> Would you be forced to send out
>  your complete sources in that event?
> 
>  This is where the license issues are...
> 
>         - Dave Rivers -

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