Oracle considering DB6 license

"Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" johannbg at gmail.com
Fri Sep 13 10:26:07 UTC 2013


On 09/13/2013 08:14 AM, Honza Horak wrote:
> On 09/12/2013 09:56 AM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
>> On 09/12/2013 07:16 AM, Jan Staněk wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> some time back Oracle released new version of Berkeley DB under AGPL,
>>> which is incompatible with Fedora licensing politics.
>>>
>>> However,
>>>
>>> https://forums.oracle.com/message/11184885#11184885
>>>
>>> If you are interested in DB6, consider leaving feedback there :)
>>
>>
>> Week later...
>>
>> it turns out that Oracle might consider re-licensing it back :)
>>
>> JBG
>
> Can you provide some more info about re-licensing, please? Where did 
> you learn about it?

It was poor attempt of humour afaik at least in this point in time 
Oracle is not thinking about re-licensing it back but since they have 
start playing that licensing game ( changing licenses ) they are likely 
to do it again...

JBG



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