On 4/21/10 3:48 PM +0100 Bayard Bell wrote:
Oracle has a number of technologies that they've acquired that have remained dual-licensed, and that includes acquiring InnoTech, which they carried forward despite being able to use it as nearly an existential threat to MySQL. In the case of their acquisition of Sleepycat, I'm aware of open-source licensing terms becoming more generous after the Oracle acquisition, where Oracle added a clear stipulation that redistribution requiring commercial licensing had to involve third parties, where prior to the acquisition Sleepycat had taken a less more expansive interpretation that covered just about any form of software distribution.
I'm no supporter of Oracle's business practices, but I am 90% sure that Sleepycat changed their license before the Oracle acquisition. Yes, it was particularly onerous before they went to standard GPL. -frank _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
