I have a few questions related to the licensing regulations on
BerkeleyDB.
How exactly does the Open Source License work for BerkeleyDB? Does it
imply that any application that uses (links with) it has to be under
GPL license? Or can it be under some other Open Source License like BSD
License for instance?
How to properly read the term "use" in this context? Is the direct
invocation of BDB API a "use"? I assume it is. But what about more
complex cases? Is the use determined by the fact of linking (statically
or dynamically) with libraries built from BDB source code? Or may be by
having some of BDB header files in the dependencies of the developed
source code even if they are not directly included in the application
source code?
Could somebody please clarify these questions?
Thanks!
/evolvah
