Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
<http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/server/openldap.html>
needs some updating. It specifically recommends that people apply patches that
should be not used. Specifically, it patches OpenLDAP to build against BDB
6.x. BDB 6.x have a hostile licensing change made by Oracle that makes BDB
unusable with OpenLDAP. Having people patch their OpenLDAP build to support BDB
6 means that they are then liable to a visit from Oracle's lawyers and general
extortion to feed the Oracle coffers. There is a reason the OpenLDAP foundation
removes support for BDB 6.x and later.
The default backend for OpenLDAP is LMDB, and is what should be used and
recommended by linux from scratch.
I appreciate your comment. I do hope you understand that we don't distribute
the built software. The users build it. I took a look at the Oracle license
and it does not appear to me to be a violation of their license to just use it,
only to distribute binaries to third parties.
Right now we have 19 packages in BLFS that use BDB. We can't just replace BDB
with LMDB without a huge effort.
Your concern is the first expressed to us.
I'll go ahead an add a note about LMDB in the book.
-- Bruce
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