[Pkg-db-devel] Bug#256332: Clarification of redistribution

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 04:51:08PM -0400, Mike Olson wrote:
> I'm following up on a thread that's a month or so old, now.  My
> apologies for the delay in closing this out.

Not at all, thank you for pursuing this.

> I was unsuccessful in getting the Commons folks to work with the FSF
> on a GPL-compatible commons deed.  While I believe that such a deed
> would be in the interest of the community generally, I don't have the
> time or throw weight to force the issue.

I agree with you, and regret that I also have insufficient weight to
influence this.

> We've consulted with our attorney, and agree that the simplest solution
> is to use the identical license for the documentation and the code.
> Accordingly, the next release of each of our products will use the
> Sleepycat public license for the documentation.
> 
> I believe that this resolves the issue that Brian Carlson raised
> on July 8, regarding problems including the Berkeley DB doc suite with
> the Debian distribution.
> 
> Thanks for your time and patience.  Please let me know if you have
> any questions, or there is any additional follow-up necessary.

That's wonderful.  Thank you for being so willing to work on this.

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