https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2206
--- Comment #12 from Andreas Metzler <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Heiko Schlittermann from comment #8) > Is there any reason to use the BDB 6.x series? Why not 5.x? It looks like an > API change we're not aware of yet. > > As far as I see (I may be wrong, as always), the version you use isn't in > use in the wide public yet (distros and such)? In version 6.0 (2013) Oracle changed the license to AGPLv3 which is a terrible license for a library. The result was that distributions (Debian, Fedora, ...) stayed with bdb 5. https://lwn.net/Articles/557820/ -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. -- ## List details at https://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-dev Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ##
