[Python-Dev] Incorporating bsddb3 (original) (raw)

Martin v. Loewis martin@v.loewis.de
30 Oct 2002 06:51:41 +0100

Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> writes:

Perhaps it could be made into an alternative for bsddb to make that simpler (someone could even contribute code to let setup.py decide).

Sure.

What's the license on the bsddb3 Python extension?

See below.

What's the license on the BerkeleyDB code from Sleepycat?

There are two licenses: One that they call the "open source license", see

http://www.sleepycat.com/license.net

There is also a commercial license.

Can we legally distribute RPMs or other binaries containing it? (I thought there were some restrictions that make it not open source.)

It depends. This is the condition:

Redistributions in any form must be accompanied by information on

how to obtain complete source code for the DB software and any

accompanying software that uses the DB software. The source code

must either be included in the distribution or be available for no

more than the cost of distribution plus a nominal fee, and must be

freely redistributable under reasonable conditions.

So distributing Python itself should be no problem.

It appears that the Pythonlabs distribution still uses DB 1.85. Don't tell that Skip :-) He believes that this version has serious flaws that can lead to data corruption...

Regards, Martin