According to Robert Ribnitz: > I am in the process of making my 'htdig' package (the one based on 3.1.6) > lintian-clean (Lintian is a special program that checks for conformance > of the package to the debian packaging guidelines). > > I found the following licenses (which I need to list in copyright): > > Berkeley DB Sleepycat license (4 clause BSD license listed in the > code, the current sleepycat license is 3 clause BSD) > > your extensions > to Berkeley DB no idea (3 clause BSD?) > > Config.guess/ > Config.sub GPL Version 2 > > htdig (3.1.6) GPL Version 2
My understanding, though I may be wrong (Geoff Hutchison could provide the definitive answer), is that the 3.1.x code base does not include any extensions or customisations to the Sleepycat Berkeley DB code, so it should be possible to update to a newer DB version (and license) with minimal difficulty. Exactly what licenses can now be applied to the old version of DB bundled with 3.1.6 is probably more a question for Sleepycat than for us, as I don't believe we've changed it. It is also my understanding that Sleepycat's license for DB is compatible with GPL, but not LGPL. It's a whole other ball of wax for the 3.2 code base. There, Neal negotiated a special license with Sleepycat that allows us to distribute our modified DB code with the LGPL'ed 3.2 ht://Dig code, provided the bundled DB code is used only for ht://Dig or libhtdig. If it's unbundled, it reverts to Sleepycat's standard license. Neal and Geoff, please chime in if you have anything to add. > Config.guess/Config.sub are used to compile the Berkeley DB. Also, what > exactly are your extensions to Berkeley DB (that prevent replacing that > version with something more recent?). > > I also replaced Config.guess/Config.sub with a more current version (2004). > > At the moment, the program still compiles with gcc/g++ 3.3, with > deprecation warnings. I don't know whether it will still compile with > gcc-3.4 Our standard advice for compiling 3.1.6 under gcc/g++ 3.x is in http://www.htdig.org/FAQ.html#q3.8 I don't know if replacing Config.guess/Config.sub makes those environment variables unnecessary or not, but they are supposed to suppress the deprecation warnings (unless there are new warnings in 3.3 or 3.4). Keep us posted on how that all turns out. Thanks. -- Gilles R. Detillieux E-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Spinal Cord Research Centre WWW: http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/ Dept. Physiology, U. of Manitoba Winnipeg, MB R3E 3J7 (Canada) ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=4721&alloc_id=10040&op=click _______________________________________________ ht://Dig Developer mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List information (subscribe/unsubscribe, etc.) https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/htdig-dev
