gdbm license change

Honza Horak hhorak at redhat.com
Tue Nov 15 08:19:59 UTC 2011


On 11/14/2011 06:57 PM, Adam Jackson wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-11-14 at 18:18 +0100, Honza Horak wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> GNU database indexing library (gdbm) has changed its license to GPLv3+.
>
> A quick scan says this affects:
>
> avahi-ui-tools (LGPLv2)
> gnu-smalltalk (GPLv2+ with exceptions)
> jpilot-backup (GPLv2+)
> libguestfs (LGPLv2+)
> librep (GPLv2+)
> man-db (GPLv2+ and GPLv3+)
> perl (unholy)
> perl-XML-LibXSLT (GPL+ or Artistic)
> q (GPLv2+)
> ruby-libs ((Ruby or GPLv2) and (GPL+ or Artistic))
> ypserv (GPLv2)
>
> - ajax

If there are some license issues not easy to solve, there is still a 
compat-gdbm package, which ships gdbm-1.8.3 with GPLv2+.

Honza


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