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On 10/07/2013 04:36 PM, Jérôme Pouiller wrote: > BerkeleyDB has changed its license since version 6. New license (AGPL) may > be incompatible with some packages. So we prefer to stick to version 5 > > This reverts commit 4c478de2e76ffc1d0a6dc413475307fd44a0a595. > > Signed-off-by: Jérôme Pouiller <jezz@sysmic.org> Acked-by: Gustavo Zacarias <gustavo@zacarias.com.ar>
Jérôme, All, On 2013-10-07 21:36 +0200, Jérôme Pouiller spake thusly: > BerkeleyDB has changed its license since version 6. New license (AGPL) may > be incompatible with some packages. So we prefer to stick to version 5 > > This reverts commit 4c478de2e76ffc1d0a6dc413475307fd44a0a595. > > Signed-off-by: Jérôme Pouiller <jezz@sysmic.org> > --- > package/berkeleydb/berkeleydb.mk | 5 ++++- > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/package/berkeleydb/berkeleydb.mk b/package/berkeleydb/berkeleydb.mk > index 9b23623..d39bf80 100644 > --- a/package/berkeleydb/berkeleydb.mk > +++ b/package/berkeleydb/berkeleydb.mk > @@ -4,7 +4,10 @@ > # > ################################################################################ > > -BERKELEYDB_VERSION = 6.0.20 > +# If you want to use lastest version of BerkeleyDB, just change VERSION below. > +# However, notice BerkeleyDB license changed and is now Affero GPL since > +# version 6 I'd prefer we'd phrase it something like: # Since BerkeleyDB version 6 and above are licensed under the Affero # GPL (AGPL), we want to keep this 'bdb' package at version 5.x to # avoid licensing issues. # BerkeleyDB version 6 or above should be provided by a dedicated # package instead. Because we really do want to keep 5.x, while your text seems to imply we could bump the version. We do not want this to happen. > +BERKELEYDB_VERSION = 5.3.21 > BERKELEYDB_SITE = http://download.oracle.com/berkeley-db > BERKELEYDB_SOURCE = db-$(BERKELEYDB_VERSION).NC.tar.gz > BERKELEYDB_SUBDIR = build_unix Regards, Yann E. MORIN.
>>>>> "Jérôme" == Jérôme Pouiller <jezz@sysmic.org> writes: > BerkeleyDB has changed its license since version 6. New license (AGPL) may > be incompatible with some packages. So we prefer to stick to version 5 > This reverts commit 4c478de2e76ffc1d0a6dc413475307fd44a0a595. Committed with the comment text adjusted as suggested by Yann, thanks.
diff --git a/package/berkeleydb/berkeleydb.mk b/package/berkeleydb/berkeleydb.mk index 9b23623..d39bf80 100644 --- a/package/berkeleydb/berkeleydb.mk +++ b/package/berkeleydb/berkeleydb.mk @@ -4,7 +4,10 @@ # ################################################################################ -BERKELEYDB_VERSION = 6.0.20 +# If you want to use lastest version of BerkeleyDB, just change VERSION below. +# However, notice BerkeleyDB license changed and is now Affero GPL since +# version 6 +BERKELEYDB_VERSION = 5.3.21 BERKELEYDB_SITE = http://download.oracle.com/berkeley-db BERKELEYDB_SOURCE = db-$(BERKELEYDB_VERSION).NC.tar.gz BERKELEYDB_SUBDIR = build_unix
BerkeleyDB has changed its license since version 6. New license (AGPL) may be incompatible with some packages. So we prefer to stick to version 5 This reverts commit 4c478de2e76ffc1d0a6dc413475307fd44a0a595. Signed-off-by: Jérôme Pouiller <jezz@sysmic.org> --- package/berkeleydb/berkeleydb.mk | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)