Why is Python 2.7 dependent on db46 and only db46
Daniel J. Luke
dluke at geeklair.net
Tue Jul 21 10:43:55 PDT 2015
> 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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