From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jul 10 15:47:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DE2D37B405 for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 15:47:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id AAA65732; Wed, 11 Jul 2001 00:47:03 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: Jason Evans Cc: Tomasz Paszkowski , mi@aldan.algebra.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: picking a DB (Re: nvi maintainer?) References: <200107092136.f69LaTx27514@abyssinian.sleepycat.com> <200107092155.f69Ltv015067@misha.privatelabs.com> <20010710231632.A53660@genesis.k.pl> <20010710143557.B22464@canonware.com> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 11 Jul 2001 00:47:03 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20010710143557.B22464@canonware.com> Message-ID: Lines: 15 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 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 Jason Evans writes: > The dxstore license has the same problem as the Sleepycat DB license. In > addition, it has the pesky advertising clause of the original BSD license. It's effectively equivalent to the GPL + the advertising clause... but their web site has a (short) list of other open source database systems, one of which (tdbm) apparently has transaction support and is under a BSD-like license (with a stricter advertising clause, though). It's old (last updated 1994?) but comes with a rather detailed TODO- list which should help kick-start development if we choose to import tdbm. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message