Date: Sun, 20 May 2007 21:22:08 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Sean Bryant <sean@cyberwang.net> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> Subject: Re: More questions about BDB Message-ID: <20070521022208.GD13345@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <4650FF62.1060000@cyberwang.net> References: <4650D8F1.3060701@u.washington.edu> <4650FF62.1060000@cyberwang.net>
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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
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