--On Friday, December 04, 2015 4:18 PM -0800 Quanah Gibson-Mount
<[email protected]> wrote:
Due to licensing changes perpetrated by Oracle to make BDB unusable, I
find it curious that the Amavisd SNMP subagent depends on BDB.
See also: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning_Memory-Mapped_Database>
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning_Memory-Mapped_Database#License_I
ssues>
Heh, sent that before finishing my thoughts.
It would be nice if the module could be updated to use a backend that is
actually FOSS, rather than one encumbered with hostile licensing, such as
LMDB.
There is currently the LMDB_File perl module for this purpose. I don't
know if it will or will not suit the purposes of the amavisd snmp subagent,
as I haven't looked in depth how amavisd uses the BerkeleyDB module.
--Quanah
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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Platform Architect
Zimbra, Inc.
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