"GvR" == Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> writes:
>> Copyright (c) 1999-2001, Digital Creations, Fredericksburg, VA, >> USA and Andrew Kuchling. All rights reserved. GvR> Now I'm confused. I thought this was Robun Dunn's bsddb3 GvR> module? Is there another? ZC paid Robin to develop bsddb3. Early on when we were developing the Berkeley storages for ZODB, we specifically asked Sleepycat about redistribution and they said that there would be no legal problem to us redistributing source or binaries with Python, because Python is also open source. I wouldn't take my word for that though -- I'd want to get that in writing -- if we decided to distribute the library. I'm not sure we'd want to distribute either the source or binary though. They're fairly large. If we did, I'd recommend BerkeleyDB 4.0.14, not the latest version, because bsddb3 doesn't yet build on 4.1.24 because of some incompatible API changes, IIUC. Note that bsddb3's Windows distro comes with the BerkeleyDB dll's, I beleive. Martin, what do you plan to do about the pybsddb test suite? It's also fairly large. If you do add that, I'd suggest not running it by default, but only with a -resource flag. Then there's the documentation and project management issues to talk about. Maybe we include none of that, but simply "import" the code into Python and re-sync whenever it's appropriate. -Barry