[28] in Athena User Interface
Re: aui, db2, mjs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Mon May 8 21:35:50 2000
Message-Id: <200005090135.VAA22876@small-gods.mit.edu>
To: Dan Winship <danw@helixcode.com>
Cc: aui@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 08 May 2000 21:25:25 EDT."
<200005090125.VAA21083@twelve-monkeys.helixcode.com>
Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 21:35:41 -0400
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> It turns out that db2 is not any longer incompatible with the GPL,
> because since Berkeley rescinded the advertising clause in their
> code, you're left with "GPLish + MITish + MITish + you can negotiate
> for better terms", and that's GPL compatible.
You seem to be right. The language in the Sleepycat copyright is very
similar to the language in the GPL requiring source code distribution.
So we can use any db we want, pretty much.
I added Maciej.
