Why is Python 2.7 dependent on db46 and only db46

[Daniel J. Luke]

> On Jul 21, 2015, at 1:37 PM, Vincent Habchi <vince at macports.org> wrote:
>> 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.

ok, so it went from:

Sleepycat 
to
Oracle-modified Sleepycat
to
AGPL v3

so, my vote would be to move everything to bdb6, then (unless there’s a good reason not to that anyone can think of).

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