On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 3:48 AM, Tom Evans <tevans.uk_at_googlemail.com> wrote: > 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. Dan and Tom, You both are correct, according to ye great wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleepycat_License . Thanks for the correction, -GarrettReceived on Mon Apr 12 2010 - 09:21:43 UTC
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