Is there any FREE alternative for libdb2 in debian?

[Wojciech Zabolotny <wzab@ipebio15.ipe.pw.edu.pl>]

Hi!

Last time I've read the libdb2 copyright statement and stated, that it
hardly can be considered a "free" library (It's significantly changed
comparing to the old 1.85 version).
Unfortunately the development packages for old libdb are not included in
debian any more :-(.
Therefore I would like to ask if anybody knows about the 100% free
equivalents for libdb2 (even not fully compatible), available for debian.
Is the old 1.85 version still supported (independently from the new
 commercialized libdb2)?

				TIA
				Wojtek Zabolotny
				wzab@ipe.pw.edu.pl