Licencing issues
Posted: Wed Apr 03, 2013 5:00 pm
Hi Dave,
I was wondering if you have ever considered that does Rel insulate it's users from the strict copyleft nature of Oracle's BDB licence?
I mean Oracle licences BDB with SleepyCat lisence.
It says that "our open source license permits you to use Berkeley DB ... at no charge under the condition that if you use the software in an application you redistribute, the complete source code for your application must be available and freely redistributable under reasonable conditions."
Now if my application uses Rel which uses BDB then since Rel uses Apache licence I don't have to open-source my software, even though I redistribute BDB inside of Rel, right?
Can you say with confidence that this is the case?
I was wondering if you have ever considered that does Rel insulate it's users from the strict copyleft nature of Oracle's BDB licence?
I mean Oracle licences BDB with SleepyCat lisence.
It says that "our open source license permits you to use Berkeley DB ... at no charge under the condition that if you use the software in an application you redistribute, the complete source code for your application must be available and freely redistributable under reasonable conditions."
Now if my application uses Rel which uses BDB then since Rel uses Apache licence I don't have to open-source my software, even though I redistribute BDB inside of Rel, right?
Can you say with confidence that this is the case?