From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jul 9 14:25:15 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from misha.privatelabs.com (misha.privatelabs.com [66.9.25.166]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7A9237B406; Mon, 9 Jul 2001 14:25:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mi@aldan.algebra.com) Received: from misha.privatelabs.com (mi@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by misha.privatelabs.com (8.11.3/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f69LOg014943; Mon, 9 Jul 2001 17:24:43 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mi@aldan.algebra.com) Message-Id: <200107092124.f69LOg014943@misha.privatelabs.com> Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2001 17:24:41 -0400 (EDT) From: mi@aldan.algebra.com Reply-To: mi@aldan.algebra.com Subject: Re: nvi maintainer? To: bostic@sleepycat.com Cc: current@FreeBSD.org, msmith@FreeBSD.org, wes@softweyr.com In-Reply-To: <200107092102.f69L2nI27304@abyssinian.sleepycat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [moved to -current] On 9 Jul, Keith Bostic wrote: >> From: mi@aldan.algebra.com >> >> Mmm, so there will be a library in /usr/lib, which a commercial >> application will not be able to link against? No thanks, I'd rather >> take gdbm and their LGPL... > > Just to be clear -- they could link against it using the same, > standard functionality that FreeBSD uses. They couldn't link against > it and use all the additional features/functionality. So we'll have to document, which functions it is Ok to call and which arguments/flags can and can not be passed to them. Brrrgh... > My guess is that your answer remains the same -- and, that's cool, I'm > used to losing this argument, I do so about twice a year. :-) Just > wanted to be clear. Well, can someone comment on the useability of gdbm? I know, it has dbm and ndbm compatibility "mode" and a less restrictive license. Should we switch over to it? -mi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message