Once upon a time, Neal Gompa <ngomp...@gmail.com> said: > My understanding of the problem is that it's less about the "doubts > about its future" and more about the fact Oracle inexplicably changed > the license with BDB 6.x to AGPLv3. Berkley DB 5.3 is old, and no one > has forked it and maintained it.
To me, it seems like it would be less work to maintain an already implemented database (BDB) than to start from scratch. I understand that nobody is happy with Oracle and their license change, but that doesn't affect the version already in use in many places. If even a couple of the current BDB users (say, OpenLDAP and RPM) had stepped up, it probably wouldn't be that much work, but instead, everybody seems intent on re-inventing their own wheels (and spending more effort in the process). -- Chris Adams <li...@cmadams.net> -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
