Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 14:35:34 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: "Eric J. Schwertfeger" <ejs@bfd.com> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, Michael Hancock <michaelh@cet.co.jp>, Alex Povolotsky <tarkhil@asteroid.svib.ru>, current@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sendmail 8.9 Message-ID: <199805262135.OAA01464@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 26 May 1998 15:35:18 PDT." <Pine.BSF.3.96.980526153422.11037B-100000@harlie.bfd.com>
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> On Tue, 26 May 1998, Mike Smith wrote: > > > > One thing we need to look at is the license. I was working on sendmail > > > 8.9.0 with db-2.0 on SunOS recently and I think I saw some licencing > > > changes in both distributions. > > > > db-2.0 is bad licensing ju-ju in the default case. If it can't be > > built to work with 1.8x we may be in trouble. > > It compiled cleanly on 2.2.6 for me, without complaining about anything, > so I'm assuming that it was working. It does no longer work with db-1.5X > and prior, if I remember correctly. db-2 works just fine on FreeBSD - that's not the problem. The problem is the *license*. Some time back the relative merits of switching to db-2 were discussed, but the ultimate decision was that the license was not viable. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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