Re: Berkeley DB license terms (was Re: Proposal...)

> > Seems this changes our license more toward GPL.  I don't think that is
> > going to be supportable by the group.  I doubt we are willing to modify
> > our license in order to use the Sleepycat DB code.
> 
> I don't know ... I read this as totally anti-GPL ... "you are more then
> welcome to distribute binary only, but then you have to pay us for use of
> our libraries" ...
> 
> ... the only aspect that would worry me is if SleepCat were to change
> their license and make it more restrictive ...

But it ties the hands of binary-only distributors, or pay them.  Not a
good choice.

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