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Re:LevelDB: A Fast Persistent Key-Value Store by stephth on Wednesday July 27, 2011 @04:20PM (#2813932)
you don't need to pay anyone to use it in your commercial software.
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Re:LevelDB: A Fast Persistent Key-Value Store by newhouseb on Wednesday July 27, 2011 @04:28PM (#2813960)
I suppose if you are shipping proprietary binaries, then yes. But otherwise it's effectively GPL'ed.
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Re:LevelDB: A Fast Persistent Key-Value Store by stephth on Wednesday July 27, 2011 @04:40PM (#2814000)
Exactly. BDB is GPL with an (non-publicly priced) commercial license to embed in apps, and LevelDB is BSD. With LevelDb, one of the most practical use case of a serverless db - embedding it in a client-side application - isn't crippled by it's own license.
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