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From http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html: Can I write free software that uses non-free libraries? If you do this, your program won't be fully usable in a free environment. If your program depends on a non-free library to do a certain job, it cannot do that job in the Free World. If it depends on a non-free library to run at all, it cannot ...

Hi! Take a look at this blog post to have a better understanding: http://geekycoder.wordpress.com/2008/07/19/understanding-gpl-open-source-license-through-scenarios/ and these ...

Renowned attorney Heather Meeker provides guidance for licensing software under GPL or commercial terms SAN MATEO, Calif., Jan. 30, 2007 - db4objects (www.db4o.com), creator of the leading open source object database, today released a new white paper titled ''db4objects and the Dual Licensing Model'', which is available for ...

New dOCL license fosters rapid adoption of db4o in wider range of open source projects SAN MATEO, Calif., Jan. 24, 2007 - db4objects (www.db4o.com), creator of the leading open source object database, today announced the introduction of a third licensing option dubbed dOCL (db4o Opensource Compatibility License). The licensing ...

German, ''db4o is not experimenting in new legal ground here (for example MySQL has the same dual licensing scheme)'' Precisely the reason that I (and others) pick and choose GPLed applications and libraries based upon the organization in control.  As a GPL licensor myself I often prefer to direct people to Creative Commons' published ...

Well, I found the answers to my own questions: http://www.db4o.com/about/company/legalpolicies/gplinterpretation.aspx I'm sorry that there appears to be a disagreement on this issue, but I do feel that db4o's policy as written on the above webpage is a poor choice.  I understand that db4o feels a need to be profitable, but abusing Copyright ...

I've got a bad taste in my mouth from reading through what I've seen so far of db4o's licensing documents and I'm hoping this is just a bad first impression... Is db4o implying that dynamically linking their DLL creates a derivation?  Is this how db4o plans to litigate? I realize that the FSF continues to support such an abominable ...

My points:1. I don't care about price for me. I care about future of OODB.2. In my opinion - making such large marketing and such stopping price/value ratio disallowing you to grow as you can.3. Nobody talking about making product free. So don't name it free-ride. I was talking about being more flexible - some will pay royalty of 20% from product ...

Eric Falsken: Kosenko Max: Christof: The benefits of open source are that we can have a discussion like this.  It's about openness, sincerity, scrutiny.  Try to have a discussion like this  with Oracle or Microsoft, and you'll know what I mean. Actually we can talk with Microsoft about that. But the result will be the same ...