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

[Matthew Wilcox]

Good morning.  I am one of the Debian maintainers for the Berkeley
DB packages.  One of our users recently noticed a discrepancy
between http://www.sleepycat.com/docs/sleepycat/legal.html and
http://www.sleepycat.com/docs/sleepycat/license.html .  The former
(legal.html) states:

	Permission to use this publication or portions of this publication
	is granted by Sleepycat Software provided that the above copyright
	notice appears in all copies and that use of such publications
	is for non-commercial use only and no modifications of the
	publication is made.

while the latter (license.html) has no such restriction on commercial
use and http://sleepycat.com/download/index.shtml makes no reference to
commercial use being prohibited.

Could you please clarify this point?


On the subject of the legal.html page, while you're acknowledging other
trademarks, would you also mind adding:

	"LINUX® is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds.

----- Forwarded message from Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> -----

From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
Subject: [Pkg-db-devel] Bug#256332: db4.2-doc: non-free
Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2004 10:27:12 +0200

Package: db4.2-doc
Version: 4.2.52-16
Severity: normal

The license text reads:

| This product and publication is protected by copyright and distributed
| under licenses restricting its use, copying and distribution. Permission
| to use this publication or portions of this publication is granted by
| Sleepycat Software provided that the above copyright notice appears in
| all copies and that use of such publications is for non-commercial use
| only and no modifications of the publication is made.

Clearly non-free, unfortunately.

----- End forwarded message -----

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