From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 21 02:32:28 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F16FD16A421 for ; Mon, 21 May 2007 02:32:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94B3513C45B for ; Mon, 21 May 2007 02:32:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.14.1/8.13.8) id l4L2M935042732; Sun, 20 May 2007 21:22:09 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Sun, 20 May 2007 21:22:08 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Sean Bryant Message-ID: <20070521022208.GD13345@dan.emsphone.com> References: <4650D8F1.3060701@u.washington.edu> <4650FF62.1060000@cyberwang.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4650FF62.1060000@cyberwang.net> X-OS: FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15 (2007-04-06) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Garrett Cooper Subject: Re: More questions about BDB X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 02:32:29 -0000 In the last episode (May 20), Sean Bryant said: > Just a personal curiosity. Is there a particular reason why FreeBSD > is holding on to BDB 1.85? All later versions have a non-BSD license (a source redistribution requirement was added), which means it can't go in the base system. BDB is built into libc and is used for the hashed passwd & termcap databases. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com