Hi, Em 04/10/2025 06:30, Ansgar 🙀 escreveu:
Hi, On Sat, 2025-10-04 at 03:00 -0300, Lucas Castro wrote:Em 03/10/2025 11:13, Chris Hofstaedtler escreveu:as you likely are aware, the db5.3 package ("Berkeley DB", short "bdb" or just "db") is orphaned in Debian, and also upstream (Oracle) changed the license for new versions. It is also a popular library for "simple" databases. This leaves us with the problem that we ship this to our users, but the future of it seems problematic and possibly unsupportable.I had been wondering the same question and why not upgrade to db18 somehow,That might be possible for software not accessible over the network in any way. For software that is network-accessible, the AGPL is a clusterfuck and in practice very very hard to comply with so that it is more reasonable to use some other software instead. The last BDB release (18.1.40) was also over five years ago, the last mails on the mailing list[1] are from 2018-06 which doesn't look very healthy at a quick glance. So one should probably move to an alternative even when there were no license problems.
Thanks for clarification, I wasn't aware about the issue against network-accessible software.
Ansgar [1]: https://oss.oracle.com/pipermail/bdb/
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