Why is Python 2.7 dependent on db46 and only db46

Vincent Habchi vince at macports.org
Tue Jul 21 10:37:50 PDT 2015


> On 21 Jul 2015, at 19:27, Daniel J. Luke <dluke at geeklair.net> wrote:
> 
> IIRC oracle changed the bdb license after 4.6. I have a dim recollection that I was going to try to look over the new license to make sure it was reasonable to update the bdb that apr-util (and subversion) use, but I never got around to it.
> 
> If someone has looked it over and it’s OK, we should just update everything to whatever the latest (compatible) version is.

Wikipedia says db60 is licenced under the GNU AGPL v3.




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