From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue May 26 15:42:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA09651 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 26 May 1998 15:42:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA09597; Tue, 26 May 1998 15:42:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA01464; Tue, 26 May 1998 14:35:34 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199805262135.OAA01464@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: "Eric J. Schwertfeger" cc: Mike Smith , Michael Hancock , Alex Povolotsky , current@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sendmail 8.9 In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 26 May 1998 15:35:18 PDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 14:35:34 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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-hackers" in the body of the message