Bud P. Bruegger wrote:
> I was quite excited about it until I looked at the license:  not open
> source...  (if you do open source, you can use and redistribute it
> freely (like in beer) but if you do s.th. commercial, you need to get
> a commercial license--or so it seems to me).  What a pity!

Yes, I saw that too (it's the Sleepycat license), and had a similar
response. Not that there's anything wrong with making a buck on code;
there's certainly room in the world for diversity in licensing.

On a side note, Sleepycat Software are themselves quite liberal about
granting free licenses for commercial applications, *if* you are are
developing with what they call an "Open Source language" (Python, Perl,
...), and if you are distributing your app in source format. (This is
the gist of a message sent to me from a Sleepycat rep, re: use of bsddb
in a commercial app; I don't want to quote her w/o permission.)

Back to PyMeld, it really wouldn't be hard to reimplement if you like
its approach. Mr Richie is welcome to try to make money, but, heck, it's
only ~500 lines of code. I'm sure we could knock out a competitor in a
couple of hours. (But not tonight; I have a closed-source commercial app
I need to finish up. ;-)

-- Graham