Re: Oracle considering DB6 license

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On 09/13/2013 12:26 PM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
On 09/13/2013 08:14 AM, Honza Horak wrote:
On 09/12/2013 09:56 AM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
On 09/12/2013 07:16 AM, Jan Staněk wrote:
Hello,

some time back Oracle released new version of Berkeley DB under AGPL,
which is incompatible with Fedora licensing politics.

However,

https://forums.oracle.com/message/11184885#11184885

If you are interested in DB6, consider leaving feedback there :)


Week later...

it turns out that Oracle might consider re-licensing it back :)

JBG

Can you provide some more info about re-licensing, please? Where did
you learn about it?

It was poor attempt of humour afaik at least in this point in time
Oracle is not thinking about re-licensing it back but since they have
start playing that licensing game ( changing licenses ) they are likely
to do it again...

Yeah, sorry, my sense for humor approaches zero when comes for licensing issues :) Before I had to solve the first license problem I'd never thought re-licensing from one "free" to another "free" license can bring so many problems and can make couple of people quite desperate.

Honza
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