[pkg-db-devel] Berkeley DB license change (Re: db-defaults_6.0.19+1~exp1_amd64.changes ACCEPTED into experimental)

[Ondřej Surý]

Do you have any reference to this?

I still see a same bsdish license in:

http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-db/db6.0.git;a=blob;f=LICENSE;h=7b909502575e5ed1f3e2b730dd8f44024ce530d1;hb=HEAD

Which roughly matches debian/copyright:

http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-db/db6.0.git;a=blob;f=debian/copyright;h=68a45063d79c05d4526da9c731a90e4990e64786;hb=HEAD

Checked and written on my phone, so I might have missed something.

Ondřej Surý

> On 1. 7. 2013, at 23:10, Florian Weimer <fw at deneb.enyo.de> wrote:
> 
> * Debian FTP Masters:
> 
>> db-defaults (6.0.19+1~exp1) experimental; urgency=low
>> .
>>   * Update default Berkeley DB version to 6.0
> 
> I'm not sure if this is a good idea because of the license change, for
> two reasons:
> 
> The AGPL is incompatible with the GPL, version 2, which forces quite a
> few programs to upgrade (APT, for instance).
> 
> Many reverse dependencies exposing network interfaces currently do not
> support retrieving their source code, which means that patching them
> and staying in compliance with the AGPL can be quite difficult,
> significantly reducing user freedom.
> 
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