F21 System Wide Change: BerkeleyDB 6

[Petr Pisar]

On 2014-04-11, Jaroslav Reznik <jreznik at redhat.com> wrote:
>= Proposed System Wide Change: BerkeleyDB 6 = 
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/BerkeleyDB_6
[...]
> The BerkeleyDB, used between others by rpm [1], changed license between 
> versions 5.* and 6.* to AGPLv3+ from GPLv2+. As those two licenses are not 
> compatible, packages using the BerkeleyDB either has to change its license to 
> AGPLv3+ compatible, keep on using the older BerkeleyDB or use another DB 
> entirely.
>
Does that mean than any GPL+ package linked to libdb-6 will have to
change license to AGPLv3+? That would have significant impact not only
on packagers but also on users.

-- Petr