 richie as i understand it post NUMBER NUMBERx versions of the core bsddb code richie ship under the sleepycat license which demands that projects richie using it must be published source don t use bsddb in a closed source product use dbm or dumdbm or use pickles or roll your own thang i doubt the presence of bsddb would be the only barrier to creating a closed source product based upon the spambayes code skip _______________________________________________ spambayes mailing list spambayes URL URL 