Esh, Thomas D (Tom) schrieb am Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 10:26:22AM -0500: * * We are evaluating the possibility of using cyrus for a * commercial product. * * Therefore, I'm looking licensing issues with Cyrus and the Berkeley DB * product must be licensed if the source code of the product * using it is not provided. The license depends on which * Berkeley DB product you are using. * * Does anyone know which of the below Berkeley DB products * cyrus is using? * * The four different products are: [...]
AFAIK, you need none of them. What you need is the *library*, not a DB product. You have to contact them directly for licenses for the library. * * Is cyrus dependent on Berkeley DB or fairly easy to remove the * dependency or replace it with another DB? It can be compiled to run with gdbm (GNU Public License) which will be a decent hit to performance but it will work. Regards, - Birger
