Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on July 11, 2005 09:49 PM
From their <a href="http://www.ittia.com/dbstar/dbstar_license.html" title="ittia.com">License Page</a ittia.com>: "The Centura license is similar to the Mozilla license, allowing derivative works and combination with proprietary software. However, users are restricted to running the software on open-source operating systems. The license agreement defines open-source as..."
Yay. Let's try to force consumer decisions down their throats. Essentially, this means that db.* is not allowed to be run on Windows, older Solaris, HPUX, AIX, IRIX, or other commercial platforms. No great loss for me, since I use mostly FOSS OS'es, but don't you think the user should be able to make that decision?
If their intention is to promote FOSS OS'es, why not package their db.* library with some popular software using it on a LiveCD with other FOSS software? It's a hell of a lot nicer than saying, "If you don't play by my rules, you can use my toys!" The license obviously fails the OSI standards, and therefore should not be considered Open Source.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on July 11, 2005 09:49 PMYay. Let's try to force consumer decisions down their throats. Essentially, this means that db.* is not allowed to be run on Windows, older Solaris, HPUX, AIX, IRIX, or other commercial platforms. No great loss for me, since I use mostly FOSS OS'es, but don't you think the user should be able to make that decision?
If their intention is to promote FOSS OS'es, why not package their db.* library with some popular software using it on a LiveCD with other FOSS software? It's a hell of a lot nicer than saying, "If you don't play by my rules, you can use my toys!" The license obviously fails the OSI standards, and therefore should not be considered Open Source.
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