On 11 October 2014 13:10, Alan Feuerbacher <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 10/10/2014 11:43 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > >> Alan Feuerbacher wrote: >> >>> On 10/10/2014 11:23 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >>> >>>> Alan Feuerbacher wrote: >>>> >>>>> On 10/10/2014 7:14 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Alan Feuerbacher wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> I ran into a problem with OpenLDAP-2.4.40: configure complains that >>>>>>> the >>>>>>> Berkeley DB version I installed a couple of weeks ago (6.1.19) is >>>>>>> "incompatible with BDB/HDB backends". Looking in config.log I found >>>>>>> the >>>>>>> error message: "BerkeleyDB 6.0.20+ license is incompatible with >>>>>>> LDAP". >>>>>>> ... >>>>>>> >>>>>> We probably could have passed ol_cv_bdb_compat=yes to configure >>>> instead >>>> of the sed, but the results are the same. >>>> >>> >>> ... how does >>> one verify that overriding the check for BerkeleyDB 6.0.20+ in configure >>> is ok? I mean that overriding it doesn't screw something up? >>> >> >> 1. The message said it was a license issue, not a technical problem. >> 2. We tried it and it works. >> > > I noticed that the message mentioned a license issue. But this is all free > software, no? So why would there be a license issue? > > In trying to solve the problem myself, I googled for "BerkeleyDB 6.0.20+ > license" and such, but got no results. How might I find why the LDAP people > put that check in configure? Contact them directly? Mostly I'm trying to > learn something useful here. I don't know about the specific licence issue here, but what I can say is that not all free software licences are compatible with each other. For example, it has not been possible to include the ZFS file system in the linux kernel because the ZFS licence (CDDL) is incompatible with the kernel licence (GPL). If in doubt use this link https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html Maybe Bruce can give you more specific information about the licence issue you refer to; maybe he can also confirm that the sed hack doesn't result in any licence infringement. Richard
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