On Monday 28 October 2002 07:03, Bennett Todd wrote: > > The term "redistribution" in the Berkeley DB public license means > your application is distributed to more than a single physical > location. Installing copies of an application at different > physical locations, whether they are customer sites or sites of a > single organization, is redistribution. > > Examples of redistribution include: > [...] > * Building an application that you install on your company's > servers in data centers around the world. > > I.e. your right to use Berkeley DB for free for in-house projects is > cancelled, and you're obliged to pay them, if your in-house project > spans multiple physical sites within your company. > > My gut feeling is that this is discriminatory in intent, it doesn't > have the flavour of DFSG, but I can't quite find anything explicit > to use to say that this should be grounds for moving Berkeley DB > into non-free. >
Looking at various licenses over time people seem to define what they mean by "redistribute" in the license as they see fit. I have even see people define it as "commercial use". Since IANAL obviously I can not make a value judgement but wanted to add a data point to consider.
