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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



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