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At 14:23 27/08/2006, Robert Koberg wrote: >peter murray-rust wrote: >>At 12:26 27/08/2006, Robert Koberg wrote: >>>Hi, >>This is very useful and it's good that there are members of XML-DEV >>who have had experience. > >Cool. I would hope any others would speak up. I claim no final >experience on the matter :) XML-DEV has a long history of careful, thoughtful and innovations contributions to XML including reviewing the state of the art of implementations. >I believe this is the product we are talking about, correct? > >http://www.sleepycat.com/products/bdbxml.html Yes. >(for some reason I remember the name differently...) > >>This is very closely linked to SleepyCat so I begin to understand. >>It seems there may be an unmaintained, potentially out-of-date, >>engine on SF which just about meets the letter of the Open Source >>license, but is of little use and which encourages people to buy a >>commercial product. > >No. Sleepycat's offering is Open Source and free (as in price) for >people who produce open source products. > >Here is their license page: > >http://www.sleepycat.com/company/licensing.html > >You can always call them to verify, which is what I did. To me, they >said just open up your app and you don't have to pay, otherwise it >will cost you -- even though I wasn't distributing anything (in my >understanding of the word). > >Again, you should be fine -- IANAL :) Thanks. This is clearer. I am uneasy about this sort of OS as it is not compatible with the normal OS licenses. Certainly GPL rigorously excludes conditions of use. But I suggest we don't get sidetracked from XML databases. >P Peter Murray-Rust Unilever Centre for Molecular Sciences Informatics University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1EW, UK +44-1223-763069
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