Re: [elephant-devel] bdb licensing text from section 9.4

2010-04-22 Thread Alex Mizrahi
??>> I think it is pretty clear -- if you do not give your application that ??>> is using BDB in source or binary form to third parties, you're ??>> ok. That is, using it for web site should be ok. q> This was precisely my understanding, but the text in the elephant q> documentation threw me

Re: [elephant-devel] bdb licensing text from section 9.4

2010-04-22 Thread quasi
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 4:28 PM, Alex Mizrahi wrote: [snip] > > I think it is pretty clear -- if you do not give your application that is > using BDB in source or binary form to third parties, you're ok. > That is, using it for web site should be ok. This was precisely my understanding, but the t

Re: [elephant-devel] bdb licensing text from section 9.4

2010-04-22 Thread Alex Mizrahi
q> This was rather disturbing (to me) so I read the license documentation q> from the oracle site and it is quite ambiguous about above stated q> point. I don't think it is ambigous. License only restricts _redistribution_ (if you redistribute, you must also release source code), but it doesn'

Re: [elephant-devel] Why does an empty BDB repository take 40 MB?

2010-04-22 Thread Alex Mizrahi
??>> SLSIA. I create a brand new BDB-backed elephant repository ??>> and it takes up 40MB of disk space. Why? LPP> Elephant creates some btrees as part of repository initialization. LPP> What you're seeing is probably a combination of BDB log files (try to LPP> invoke db_archive with the -

Re: [elephant-devel] bdb licensing text from section 9.4

2010-04-22 Thread Leslie P. Polzer
quasi wrote: > Is Oracle is still using the Sleepycat licence or have they changed it > ? I was planning to build a website with a berkeley db backend using > Elephant. Is this not recommended due to licensing issues ? This would > be a commercial website and I would not want to release the code