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Re: Berkeley DB 6.0 license change to AGPLv3



On Tue, 2013-07-02 at 09:35 -0400, Paul Tagliamonte wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 02, 2013 at 09:15:15AM -0400, Paul Tagliamonte wrote:
> > Again, why do you plan on removing free software from main due to a
> > change in license?
> 
> As algernon points out, it makes slightly more sense when you remember
> that the AGPLv3 is not compatable with the GPLv2
> 
> I'm still against removing it from the archive.

But the new version should not build the default libdb-dev, as that is
likely to result in unintended GPLv2/v3 combinations that cannot be
distributed.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Life would be so much easier if we could look at the source code.

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