Subject: Re: db2 licence (was Re: CVS commit: cryptosrc-us)
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
From: Tom Yu <tlyu@MIT.EDU>
List: current-users
Date: 07/30/1999 13:12:17
>>>>> "GH" == Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU> writes:

GH> I believe (don't take my word for it) that Sleepycat has offered
GH> to give NetBSD a license to distribute db2 under different terms
GH> with NetBSD, but we aren't interested in that sort of license.
GH> (We want our code to be usable for any purpose, so we can't accept
GH> restrictions like "can only be used as part of the NetBSD C
GH> library".)

Sleepycat has made this offer to MIT, but we weren't interested in
that either because it would prevent people from using db2 with
anything other than Kerberos.  Therefore, the "db2" in the MIT
Kerberos sources are actually more like db1.85 or something, heavily
patched.

---Tom