| Mark Wilcox 2005-07-25, 5:45 pm |
| I don't think anyone is saying you should require Sleepycat JE to use
Apache DS - just make it an option. Then that shouldn't violate
anyones license or principals unless you're going to be an idealogue
and that's as limiting to innovation/adoption/community as any certain
monopolistic company.
Mark
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On 7/25/05, David Boreham <david-Q2lcOYGAZuYPnHn3N7+5xA@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Paul Franz wrote:
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> I think this is called Redistribution by Proxy, and it's not allowed (or
> rather
> it puts you in exactly the same position wrt the licence as if you had
> distributed the bits directly).
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> GPL'ed code like the JE basically makes you release all the source
> code for the process into which you link it. This is one of the things
> that the Apache Licence doesn't make you do, so they're fundamentally
> different.
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> I guess Apache DS depends on a Java runtime, and Java isn't Apache Licens=
ed,
> but presumably that's not a problem...
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