BerkeleyDB has recently been relicensed by Oracle (to AGPLv3) -- Debian discussion as covered by LWN here:

http://lwn.net/Articles/557487/ http://lwn.net/Articles/557487/#Comments

Given that the older 5.x version is used by multiple packages (most notably RPM), not all of which are AGPLv3-compatible, perhaps we need to discuss the implications of this re-license?

1. Fork BDB 5.x 2. Audit the dependents to see which have incompatible licenses (off the top of my head, GPLv2-only, GPLv3, GPLv3+ -- GPLv2+ will simply become AGPLv3) 3. ... ?

Here are the packages we currently have that build against libdb-devel:

389-ds-base-0:1.3.1.2-1.fc19.src apr-util-0:1.4.1-8.fc19.src clisp-0:2.49-9.20130208hg.fc19.src compat-libgda-0:3.1.2-10.fc19.src cyrus-imapd-0:2.4.17-2.fc19.src cyrus-sasl-0:2.1.26-8.fc19.src cyrus-sasl-0:2.1.26-9.fc19.src dsniff-0:2.4-0.15.b1.fc19.src evolution-data-server-0:3.8.3-1.fc19.src exim-0:4.80.1-3.fc19.src hail-0:0.8-0.13.gf9c5b967.fc19.src iproute-0:3.9.0-1.fc19.src isync-0:1.0.6-1.fc19.src jigdo-0:0.7.3-17.fc19.src libetpan-0:1.1-5.fc19.src libgda-1:5.1.2-2.fc19.src libpinyin-0:0.9.92-1.fc19.src libpinyin-0:0.9.93-1.fc19.src libsolv-0:0.3.0-3.git7399ad1.fc19.src libsolv-0:0.3.0-5.git228d412.fc19.src nmh-0:1.5-4.fc19.src nss_updatedb-0:10-6.fc19.src nvi-0:1.81.6-7.fc19.src opendkim-0:2.8.3-2.fc19.src openldap-0:2.4.35-4.fc19.src openldap-0:2.4.35-5.fc19.src openser-0:1.3.4-28.fc19.src opensips-0:1.8.2-6.fc19.src pam-0:1.1.6-11.fc19.1.src pam_abl-0:0.5.0-2.fc19.src pam_ccreds-0:10-7.fc19.src perl-4:5.16.3-264.fc19.src perl-4:5.16.3-265.fc19.src perl-BDB-0:1.90-4.fc19.src perl-BerkeleyDB-0:0.51-4.fc19.src perl-Digest-MD4-0:1.9-1.fc19.src perl-Qt-0:0.96.0-6.fc19.src perl-eperl-0:2.2.14-23.fc19.src php-0:5.5.0-0.10.RC3.fc19.src php-0:5.5.0-1.fc19.src postfix-2:2.10.0-2.fc19.src postfix-2:2.10.1-1.fc19.src postler-0:0.1.1-12.fc19.src python-0:2.7.5-1.fc19.src qpid-cpp-0:0.20-6.fc19.src qpid-cpp-0:0.22-1.1.fc19.src qpid-cpp-0:0.22-2.fc19.src redland-0:1.0.16-2.fc19.src rpm-0:4.11.0.1-2.fc19.src ruby-0:2.0.0.195-8.fc19.src ruby-0:2.0.0.247-11.fc19.src sendmail-0:8.14.7-1.fc19.src sks-0:1.1.4-1.fc19.src spamprobe-0:1.4d-4.fc19.src squidGuard-0:1.4-17.fc19.src subversion-0:1.7.10-1.fc19.src tabled-0:0.5.2-2.fc19.src webalizer-0:2.23_05-7.fc19.src xemacs-0:21.5.33-5.fc19.src zinnia-0:0.06-16.fc19.src

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