In the last episode (Apr 08), Garrett Cooper said: > On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 2:30 PM, Chuck Swiger <cswiger_at_mac.com> wrote: > > On Apr 8, 2010, at 2:18 PM, krad wrote: > > [ ... ] > >>> is that even possible with CDDL? > >> > >> im not a lawyer but it wouldn't surprise me > > > > I'm not a lawyer either, but I was active in reviewing and suggesting > > changes to CDDL submission for OSI approval back in 2004. > > > > A copyright owner always has the ability to relicense their code under > > other terms, but existing code is guaranteed to be available, > > redistributable to others, etc under the terms of the current version of > > CDDL; in particular see: > > > > If Oracle chooses, they might make future changes to the ZFS source code > > under different or more restrictive licensing terms, but what's > > available now is always going to be available. > > The same of basic principle applies to BDB; originally it was BSD licensed > in 1.x under FreeBSD, then GPLed in 2.x+ (IIRC), then left to pasture in > 4.x after Oracle acquired Sleepycat DB. MySQL is GPLv2 today... who > knows what it might be tomorrow... BDB was never GPL'ed; it was and still is BSD-licensed. http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/berkeley-db/htdocs/oslicense.html -- Dan Nelson dnelson_at_allantgroup.comReceived on Fri Apr 09 2010 - 15:44:49 UTC
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