From owner-freebsd-current Tue May 2 9:38:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu [18.24.4.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BE7037B5B6 for ; Tue, 2 May 2000 09:38:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu) Received: (from wollman@localhost) by khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA74124; Tue, 2 May 2000 12:38:23 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wollman) Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 12:38:23 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <200005021638.MAA74124@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Thomas David Rivers Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: db 1.85 --> 2.x or 3.x? In-Reply-To: <200005021632.MAA26191@lakes.dignus.com> References: <390EFFC5.52BFA1D7@elischer.org> <200005021632.MAA26191@lakes.dignus.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG < said: > This is where the license issues are... Keith offered to make a one-time lobotomy of the DB 2.x code to trim it down to just the 1.85 API, with a standard Berkeley-style license. We discussed this for a while, but determined that: 1) exchanging one unmaintained database package for another was not a particularly useful tradeoff, and 2) the file-format changes would make this sort of change exceedingly painful to our users. For these reasons, we said ``thanks but no thanks''. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message