[ZODB-Dev] Berkley DB and ZODB Distros

[Toby Dickenson]

On Fri, 31 Aug 2001 10:42:16 -0400, barry@zope.com (Barry A. Warsaw)
wrote:

>
>>>>>> "CW" =3D=3D Chris Withers <chrisw@nipltd.com> writes:
>
>    CW> Are there any plans to make ZODB (and Zope ;-) releases that
>    CW> include the necessary version of BerkleyDB in the same way
>    CW> that they currently include the necessary version of Python?
>
>Probably not with StandaloneZODB, and I'm not sure about Zope.  There
>are licensing issues that you may have to research if you're bundling
>ZODB+Berkeley into a commercial package.  See www.sleepycat.com for
>details.  (I believe the license allows us to freely redistribute it
>since we're giving away the source code.)

I looked at this a while back. Sleepycat are happy for BerkelyDB to be
used any python program, even commercial ones, on the basis that
Python's source is available.



Toby Dickenson
tdickenson@geminidataloggers.com