Florian Weimer has correctly pointed out that Oracle has decided to change the
BDB 6.0 license to AGPLv3
(https://oss.oracle.com/pipermail/bdb/2013-June/000056.html). This hasn't been
reflected in release tarball (probably by mistake), but since the AGPLv3 is not
very friendly to downstream projects, we (as the Debian project) need to take a
decision.
My opinion is that this Oracle move just sent the Berkeley DB to oblivion, and
Berkeley DB will be less and less used (or replaced by something else).
Hi there,
I haven't found any topic about this change on Oracle's Berkeley DB
discussion platform, so I created one and it surprisingly isn't without
reply as I wrongly supposed:
https://forums.oracle.com/message/11186666
"We are in the process of evaluating the licensing incompatibilities
introduced by the re-licensing to AGPLv3 and looking at the different
alternatives. It would be very useful to have a better understanding of
the different projects that use BDB and what 'flavor' of BDB they use.
BDB is available as Data Store (DS), Concurrent Data Store (CDS),
Transactional Data Store (TDS), and High Availability (HA). Maybe we
can use this thread to start to collect such information."
I don't give myself much hope, but why not try it and not giving them
the feedback (and of course a try to push them to change things back).
So I'd like to encourage as many people as possible to provide their
view on the change in that discussion.
Regards,
Honza
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