On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 6:44 PM, Dan Nelson <dnelson_at_allantgroup.com> wrote: > 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 > IANAL, but that is not a BSD license. It is the Sleepycat license, which is compatible with GPL. The giveaway is in section 3: * 3. Redistributions in any form must be accompanied by information on * how to obtain complete source code for the DB software and any * accompanying software that uses the DB software. The '.. any accompanying software' clause makes it quite like the GPL. Cheers TomReceived on Mon Apr 12 2010 - 08:48:56 UTC
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