On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 3:15 PM, Paul Tagliamonte <paul...@debian.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 02, 2013 at 09:44:10AM +0200, Ondřej Surý wrote: > > Florian Weimer has correctly pointed out that Oracle has decided to > change the > > BDB 6.0 license to AGPLv3 ( > https://oss.oracle.com/pipermail/bdb/2013-June/ > > 000056.html). This hasn't been reflected in release tarball (probably by > > mistake), but since the AGPLv3 is not very friendly to downstream > projects, we > > (as the Debian project) need to take a decision. > > What? Wait, What? What?[1] > > The AGPL is a DFSG free FSF approved and OSI approved free software > license? We made a decision, it's *free software* and fit for main. apt-get is licensed GPLv2 and thus incompatible with AGPLv3. cyrus-{imapd,sasl} has BSD-style license and thus incompatible with AGPLv3. OpenLDAP has BSD-style (OpenLDAP) license and thus incompatible with AGPLv3. subversion has Apache 2.0 license and thus incompatible with AGPLv3. ...do I have to even continue...? > > My opinion is that this Oracle move just sent the Berkeley DB to > oblivion, and > > Berkeley DB will be less and less used (or replaced by something else). > > Sure. Software comes and goes. Why not let it happen, who cares, it's > still free software. I guess the maintainers of r-depends _care_! > > What we can do right now (more can apply): > > [ ] Keep db5.3 for jessie > > [ ] Keep db5.3 for jessie+ > > [ ] Keep db5.3 forever > > [ ] Suck it and relicense the downstream software as appropriate > > [ ] Block db6.0 and higher from entering Debian > > [ ] Remove Berkeley DB support from jessie+ > > [ ] Remove Berkeley DB support from jessie++ > > [ ] Replace Berkeley DB with free alternative [*] > > [ ] Somebody writes a BDB-compatible wrapper around the free > alternative(s) > [ ] Do nothing because it's free software > > > dak rm -Rn -s unstable db-defaults db5.1 db5.3 > db-depends > > Again, why do you plan on removing free software from main due to a > change in license? I am not removing anything, have you read my email? This command was merely used to generate list of r-depends of Berkeley DB. But we cannot maintain db5.3 (or db5.1) forever if upstream declares it dead. O. -- Ondřej Surý <ond...@sury.org>
