[29] in Athena User Interface
Re: aui, db2, mjs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Tibbetts)
Tue May 9 18:57:23 2000
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To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
cc: aui@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 08 May 2000 21:35:41 EDT."
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Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 18:57:17 -0400
From: Richard Tibbetts <tibbetts@MIT.EDU>
Ok, sure. db2 is more likely to make us happy anyways. I am installing
the most current db2 from sleepycat now. Or do we want to go with db3?
tibbetts
On 5/8 you wrote:
> > 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 because since Berkeley rescinded the advertising clause in their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.
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