It isn't dragging on at all. The APR PMC has asked the FSF about it via their licensing@ address. Awaiting a response now...
Cheers, -g On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 10:01:19AM +0100, Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote: > This is dragging on a bit - while it is important in my > opinion. To resolve this you - perhaps give your PMC > some input as what you would like them to do: > > -> Ask the board; my guess is that our answer will be; > not a derived work if we are talking about #include <... > and strict API use. > > But I sure would like to know for sure that a ./configure && make > for bin releases by our volunteers which we distribute from the > ASF would pick this up by accident. So this may lead to a > --dist-build flag or something; or a script like the build one > on 1.3 > > -> Ask the board to ask the FSF - which is clearly > a double edged sword; as they have an oracle like > expectation to have their answer taken on face value. > > -> Simply ignore it - it is not an issue. > > -> Simply sidestep the issue and ditch gdbm (I personally prefer > Berkely DB et.al. anyway). > > If you see some more possible paths going forward - add them - and > I suggest to have a few +1/-1's to guide your PMC. > > Dw -- Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
