On 2020-09-27 08:38 -0400, Scott Andrews via blfs-support wrote: > > On 9/26/20 6:39 PM, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-support wrote: > > > > > > > > > > This is not a true open source version. Oracle is not friendly to > > > > open source. In your link below you have to "sign in" to get the > > > > source code. > > > > > > > > Note that Arch and Debian also use version 5.3.28. > > > > > > > > -- Bruce > > > > Here are the direct links to download the various versions, Notice no > registration required > > http://download.oracle.com/berkeley-db/db-18.1.40.tar.gz > > http://download.oracle.com/berkeley-db/db-5.3.28.tar.gz > > http://download.oracle.com/berkeley-db/db-6.0.20.tar.gz > http://download.oracle.com/berkeley-db/db-6.1.19.tar.gz > http://download.oracle.com/berkeley-db/db-6.1.26.tar.gz > http://download.oracle.com/berkeley-db/db-6.2.23.tar.gz > > So the GPL license is not an open source version? I beg to differ
*Affero* GPL is problematic. For example, in BLFS we have PHP linked to Berkeley DB. If PHP is linked to an AGPL Berkeley DB, and you serve a website with this PHP build, then technically *everyone* who has viewed your website can demend a copy of the PHP source code of your entire website. It would be illegal to refuse them. Then those who don't want to give the source code of the entire website will have to pay some money to Oracle. -- Xi Ruoyao <[email protected]> School of Aerospace Science and Technology, Xidian University -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
