I'm not sure if I understand the problem, is your employer that scared of the GPL that they completely forbid the /use/ of software licensed as such? (Explicitly "use" of GPL software, not incorporation of GPL licensed code or inter-operation with your own, which is a different issue.)
If so, this is an incredibly myopic policy, if they (or their counsel) had read the license they would understand that the potentially problematic terms of the GPL only affect you if you are redistributing the software. As an end user the copyleft provisions don't restrict you in any way. As for actually answering your question, there have been discussions on this list about replacing BDB with something else, as Oracle have changed the license to AGPL (Fedora in particular are trying to migrate everything that uses it away), if you check out the archives you'll see it should be possible to replace it with LMDB or just rip it out entirely. -- Richard Bradfield Richard Bradfield > On 2 Aug 2016, at 04:48, Dave Abrahams <d...@boostpro.com> wrote: > > > Hi, > > I just discovered that mbsync links to Berkeley DB, which—because of > the GPL3 license and my employer's policy means I can't use mbsync at > work. But I truly can't live without mbsync! Its “competitors” are all > inferior and completely inadequate. > > A look at the source code makes it look like it was written to work > without Berkeley DB, and by slightly hacking configure.ac I was even > able to build it that way. What effect should I expect my hack to have > on the performance or functionality of mbsync? Is there any chance > Berkeley DB can be replaced with a more favorably licensed component? > > Thanks in advance, > > -- > Dave > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > isync-devel mailing list > isync-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/isync-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ isync-devel mailing list isync-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/isync-devel
