Hi, On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 4:39 PM, Tom Duffey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What would it take to turn bdb into an officially released persistence > manager?
The problem with bdb-persistence is licensing. The BDB licensing terms are too strict for us (see http://people.apache.org/~rubys/3party.html), so we can't release the code. > I doubt I am the only Magnolia user who uses bdb and agree it makes > sense to either switch to something else or make bdb more official. I don't know the full history with Magnolia, but AFAIK the decision to go with bdb-persistence was made quite a while ago. The bundle persistence managers in more recent Jackrabbit releases are much better than anything we had before, so I would certainly recommend that you at least consider switching. Alternatively it's certainly possible for Magnolia to adopt and release the bdb-persistence code, or we could make it a standalone project somewhere if there are enough interested users. BR, Jukka Zitting
