> > Sleepycats license is not FreeBSD compatible :-/
>
> I don't understand. Reading
> <http://www.sleepycat.com/license.net>, it seems to me that FreeBSD
> meets all the necessary requirements. Can someone who understands
> the details of the licensing issues either explain the situation to
> me, or provide pointers to references that do?
Sure, I built a commercial application on FreeBSD. It looked up
usernames (which use DB routines). Therefore, according to the
licensing scheme, I must now give away the entire source code to my
commercial application.
Second issue. I use FreeBSD in an embedded system. In order to not
*have* to distribute source code to my application, it's in my best
interest to strip out any GNU and similar code from the system before I
'ship' it. (Which allows me to ship binaries to make the distribution
of my product easier). However, I'm not using the newer DB routines, so
I must now provide source code to *everything*, and pointing to the
FreeBSD site is not adequate, because there are no time limitations, and
FreeBSD might yank the distribution on their site before a customer
stops using my hardware.
Is that easier?
Nate
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