* Howard Chu: > 5) BerkeleyDB lives under a licensing cloud. Since 2008 Oracle > lawyers were contacting commercial OpenLDAP users and demanding > license fees from them, even though BerkeleyDB is expressly licensed > for free use in open source software (such as OpenLDAP). At least the new license is explicitly compatible with the GPL, version 3. It's easy to read the old Sleeypcat license in such a way that is incompatible because it imposes an additional restriction: It offers nothing comparable to the GPL's development/cloud computing exception. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
