--On Monday, March 23, 2015 5:21 PM -0500 Bruce Dubbs
<[email protected]> wrote:
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.
This concern is well documented and is why projects across the board are
abandoning using newer versions of BDB.
To be clear, your instructions to apply that patch put your users in legal
jeopardy. Please remove all such references.
Please see:
<http://www.infoworld.com/article/2611450/open-source-software/oracle-switches-berkeley-db-license.html>
and
<http://lwn.net/Articles/557820/>
--Quanah
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