Re: Use of Sleepycat DB

[Rob Browning]

"James A. Treacy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> It will cause inconvenience for distributions. A dependence on
> something that is not true Open Source (follows the DFSG) causes a
> package to go in contrib. Withe a license as described above,
> Berkeley DB would have to go in non-free and gnucash would go in
> contrib.

Actually libdb2 (which is the full sleepycat DB) is in Debian's main
distribution.  I presume the license lawyers have looked at it, but
perhaps not.

I don't think DB2 violates the DFSG, but I'd have to think harder
about it to be sure.  It doesn't have any discriminating clauses
against any free software, and I don't think the DFSG cares what
restrictions are placed on non-free software...

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