On Friday 09 August 2013 11:31:22 Pierre Schmitz wrote: > Hi all, > > we just finished the db 6.0 rebuild in staging. I was pointed* to an > issue with it's license though. It seems Oracle switched the license to > AGPL with version 6.0. I am not an expert, but afaik this makes it only > compatible with GPL3 clients and also enforces the AGPL terms on those. > > Debian had a similar discussion > https://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2013/07/msg00000.html > > If you think this is indeed a problem, I suggest to drop the rebuild for > now and keep db-5. We could introduce a db6 package if packages really > need that and are license-compatible. We might also want to try to > disable db-functionality if possible and switch to alternative > implementations. > > Greetings, > > Pierre > > *) https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=65426 Out of the applications I have installed that use db 5.3, bogofilter can be linked against sqlite3 instead if it is configured with --with-database=sqlite3
