Wietse Venema via Postfix-users:
> Markus Reichelt via Postfix-users:
> > * Wietse Venema via Postfix-users <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > > Will postfix itself remove Berkeley db support? My Almalinux 9.7 still
> > > > has it, the newer EL10 based one does not.
> > >
> > > Postfix will support BerkeleyDB for as long as OS distributions
> > > support it.
> >
> > Neat. Pardon my ignorance but I seem to have missed the original drama,
> > namely the removal of Berkeley db from distros. That's total news to me,
> > and I'm just looking for a reference. Thanks!
>
> The drama started in 2023, when Oracle changed the Berkeley DB
> license to AGPL.
That's 2013 of course. Muscle memory got in the way.
Wietse
> Reference:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_DB
>
> Also of interest:
> https://opensource.google/documentation/reference/using/agpl-policy
>
> None of this matters for the Berkeley DB versions that are used in
> *BSD, MacOS, etc.
>
> Wietse
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