A Change in License for Berkeley DB

Re:A Change in License for Berkeley DB by chenster on Saturday July 06, 2013 @04:08AM (#5998301)

Wow, Oracle has did again. Oracle has proven again it is now the single most evil software company out there, surpassing Microsoft. What they are doing is to incrementally convert open source free software into their proprietary cash cow.

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Re:A Change in License for Berkeley DB by Yver on Saturday July 06, 2013 @06:26AM (#5998502)

Oh that AGPL cash cow... Damn you Richard Stallman and your capitalistic ways!

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Re:A Change in License for Berkeley DB by dvirsky on Saturday July 06, 2013 @05:27AM (#5998419)

how does this affect Python users? Berkeley is part of the default standard library and is installed by all Python users everywhere.

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Re:A Change in License for Berkeley DB by stock_toaster on Saturday July 06, 2013 @06:26AM (#5998504)

Wasn't it removed in python3, and deprecated since 2.6?

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Re:A Change in License for Berkeley DB by dvirsky on Saturday July 06, 2013 @04:49PM (#6000028)

still included with the batteries in 2.7, which comes with most distros.

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