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Date:      Tue, 2 May 2000 10:27:39 -0500 (CDT)
From:      David Scheidt <dscheidt@enteract.com>
To:        Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be>
Cc:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, FreeBSD-CURRENT Mailing List <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: db 1.85 --> 2.x or 3.x?
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.96.1000502102451.50739A-100000@shell-1.enteract.com>
In-Reply-To: <v04220802b53497c902d8@[195.238.1.121]>

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On Tue, 2 May 2000, Brad Knowles wrote:

> At 1:16 PM +0200 2000/5/2, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> 
> >  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?

FreeBSD meets the license requirements.  A non-FreeBSD developed application
that used the DB interfaces might not.  I don't think it would be a good
idea for FreeBSD to do things that make it harder to produce commerical
software.


David Scheidt



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