F21 System Wide Change: BerkeleyDB 6

[Paolo Bonzini]

Il 24/04/2014 16:50, Kevin Fenzi ha scritto:
>> > Well, in the current plan (make libdb5 "compat" package and updating
>> > the libdb to v6), after the mass rebuild the packages would start
>> > using v6.
> Yeah, which makes technical sense... but the concern is packagers who
> aren't paying attention rebuild for some other reason and are not on v6
> when it's a licensing problem. ;(
>

(Sorry for the late reply).

It's not just packagers, it's also users.  If a dependent package 
switches from GPL (any release) to AGPL, users will have to add the "get 
sources" button to their code when the AGPL conditions apply.  If they 
are not able to distribute sources at all, they will have a problem (of 
course the same happens for say GPLv2+ -> GPLv3+ switches, but then it 
only affects redistribution and not usage).

Paolo