Armin K. wrote:
On 10/02/2014 08:46 AM, BLFS Trac wrote:
#5608: openldap-2.4.40
{{{
conftest.c:150:2: error: #error "BerkeleyDB 6.0.20+ license is
incompatible with LDAP"
#error "BerkeleyDB 6.0.20+ license is incompatible with LDAP"
configure: error: BerkeleyDB version incompatible with BDB/HDB backends
}}}
The problems with BDB6 hit a lot of people. That's why many distros are
trying to move away from BDB or are still shipping BDB5 where moving
away is not possible.
Starting with BDB6, it got relicensed to the GNU AGPL license, which is
incompatible with GPL and alike licenses. That made anything linked
against BDB that has a AGPL incompatible license unredistributable.
However, we don't distribute anything linked to it. We just link to the
sources and an end user would simply install them - but then couldn't
redistribute built binaries.
For this issue, I have found the offending commit in OpenLDAP git repo
and reverted it, but I am not sure if it is a good idea to include in BLFS.
I am not really into software licensing, so I can't speak how correct I
am. That's why I'm writing here, to read everybody's opinion before
acting on this.
A quick check shows:
general/prog/ruby.xml: <xref linkend="db"/>,
general/prog/python3.xml: <xref linkend="db"/>,
general/prog/php.xml: <xref linkend="db"/>,
general/prog/subversion.xml: <xref linkend="db"/>,
general/prog/python2.xml: <xref linkend="db"/>,
general/genlib/apr-util.xml: <xref linkend="db"/>,
general/sysutils/redland.xml: <xref linkend="db"/>,
networking/mailnews/mutt.xml: <xref linkend="db"/> or
postlfs/security/linux-pam.xml: <xref linkend="db"/>,
postlfs/security/cyrus-sasl.xml: <xref linkend="db"/>
server/major/apache.xml: <xref linkend="db"/>,
server/major/bind.xml: <xref linkend="db"/>,
server/other/openldap.xml: <xref linkend="db"/> (only if building servr)
server/mail/exim.xml: <xref linkend="db"/> or
server/mail/postfix.xml: <xref linkend="db"/>
I didn't check for required/recommended/optional or if there were
alternatives.
For info on AGPL, see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affero_General_Public_License
-- Bruce
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