Removing (or trying to) BerkeleyDB from Fedora

Jan Synacek jsynacek at redhat.com
Fri Jan 9 08:10:19 UTC 2015


Jan Staněk <jstanek at redhat.com> writes:
> Hi guys,
> as the new BerkeleyDB 6.x has a more restrictive license than the
> previous versions (AGPLv3 vs. LGPLv2), and due to that many projects
> cannot use it, perhaps it is time to get rid of it from Fedora for good
> - or at least trim down the list of packages dependent on it as much as
> possible.

As the maintainer of openldap, I wouldn't mind too much switching to MDB
as the default backend (in my understanding, it's preferred by the
upstream as well). However, I *think* that many people still use it and
wouldn't like the change much. If there are any openldap users, please,
comment.

Cheers,
-- 
Jan Synacek
Software Engineer, Red Hat
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