On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 12:00:07PM -0700, zope-dev-admin@zope.org wrote:

From: Toby Dickenson <mbel44@dial.pipex.net> To: zope-dev@zope.org, chrism@digicool.com Cc: James Wilson <jwilson@geminidataloggers.com> Subject: [Zope-dev] SessionManager, BerkeleyDB, and license compatability Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 15:04:28 +0100 Reply-To: tdickenson@geminidataloggers.com

I understand from the SessionTracking wiki that this product may use BerkeleyDB

http://www.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Projects/CoreSessionTracking/CurrentStatus

The BerkeleyDB license at http://www.sleepycat.com/licensing.html indicates that it may only be distributed free of charge with software that is 'freely available and redistributable by others'.

We are currently using Zope to develop an application that does not fall into this category. It would be a serious problem for us if Zope's core had a dependency on code with this type of license.

If I remember correctly some information I got on the Python newsgroups long time ago, the Sleepycat people only care that Python, which is linked to BerkeleyDB, is free. The free/commercial status of the application you will write in Python (including Zope and third party products) is not relevant to them. S. -- Stéfane Fermigier, Tel: 06 63 04 12 77 (mobile). <www.portalux.com>: le portail Linux / logiciel libre. "Amazon: we patent the dot in .com"