[Python-Dev] bsddb

[Steve Holden]

Curt Hagenlocher wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 7:33 AM, Oleg Broytmann <phd at phd.pp.ru> wrote:
>> SQLite is public domain; the licensing terms of Berkeley DB[1] are not
>> friendly to commercial applications: "Our open source license ...
>> permits use of Berkeley DB in open source projects or in applications
>> that are not distributed to third parties." I am not sure if using of
>> PyBSDDB in commercial applications is considered "using of Berkeley DB
>> in open source projects";
> 
> Wow, I hadn't realized that it was such a restrictive license.  When I
> see "Berkeley" I think "BSD license".
> 
Well of course nowadays when you see "SleepyCat" you need to be thinking
"Oracle". They have dabbled in open source, but I didn't get the
impression that the support for Linux was particularly wholehearted, for
example.

regards
 Steve
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