On 9/27/20 8:47 AM, Xi Ruoyao via blfs-support wrote:
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.
That is NOT what the license states:
* The GNU Affero General Public License is designed specifically to
* ensure that, in such cases, the modified source code becomes available
* to the community. It requires the operator of a network server to
* provide the source code of the modified version running there to the
* users of that server. Therefore, public use of a modified version, on
* a publicly accessible server, gives the public access to the source
* code of the modified version.
*
* An older license, called the Affero General Public License and
* published by Affero, was designed to accomplish similar goals. This is
* a different license, not a version of the Affero GPL, but Affero has
* released a new version of the Affero GPL which permits re-licensing
under
* this license.
*
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html
You see it is talking about modifications to Berkley db, I see no
reference in the license about anything other than the db. According to
your explanation if i read correctly.....if you host on a ms windows
server you would then need to provide the source and executables for
windows 10, that is absurd
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