links for 2007-12-19
December 19th, 2007
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I didn’t realize this, but Oracle liberalized the license for Berkeley DB after buying Sleepycat. BDB JE offers transparent persistence for Java objects, which is pretty cool (I wonder how well it works/can be made to work with Scala?) The license is BSD-
Oracle did not change the license for Berkeley DB after acquiring Sleepycat. It remains the same. It is NOT the BSD license. It is the Sleepycat License, recognized by OSI as an open source license. It behaves exactly like the GPL, not the BSD license.
See:
http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/berkeley-db/htdocs/licensing.html
Thanks for the comment. I missed the part of the license that says you need to provide source for the applications that use the software. The link you provided has a helpful, small FAQ which is better than just the license text itself.