[arch-general] [arch-dev-public] licensing issues with DB 6.0

[Hussam Al-Tayeb]

On Friday 09 August 2013 11:31:22 Pierre Schmitz wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> we just finished the db 6.0 rebuild in staging. I was pointed* to an
> issue with it's license though. It seems Oracle switched the license to
> AGPL with version 6.0. I am not an expert, but afaik this makes it only
> compatible with GPL3 clients and also enforces the AGPL terms on those.
> 
> Debian had a similar discussion
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2013/07/msg00000.html
> 
> If you think this is indeed a problem, I suggest to drop the rebuild for
> now and keep db-5. We could introduce a db6 package if packages really
> need that and are license-compatible. We might also want to try to
> disable db-functionality if possible and switch to alternative
> implementations.
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> Pierre
> 
> *) https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=65426

Out of the applications I have installed that use db  5.3, bogofilter can be 
linked against sqlite3 instead if it is configured with --with-database=sqlite3