> > What's the license on the BerkeleyDB code from Sleepycat? > > There are two licenses: One that they call the "open source license", > see > > http://www.sleepycat.com/license.net > > There is also a commercial license. > > > Can we legally distribute RPMs or other binaries containing it? (I > > thought there were some restrictions that make it not open source.) > > It depends. This is the condition: > > # Redistributions in any form must be accompanied by information on > # how to obtain complete source code for the DB software and any > # accompanying software that uses the DB software. The source code > # must either be included in the distribution or be available for no > # more than the cost of distribution plus a nominal fee, and must be > # freely redistributable under reasonable conditions. > > So distributing Python itself should be no problem. It's similar to GPL's "copyleft". I think it's no different from what we do with e.g. GNU readline, so I think it's okay. Redistributors of Python in binary form will have to beware though. I wonder if we're on thin ice with the RPMs (since we don't clarify any of this)? --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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