On 2/3/06, William A. Rowe, Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It's a showstopper if we violate licensing terms, period. In fact a case
> could be made to take down www.apache.org/dist/apr/ today. But I think that
> the better solution is to immediately and agressively address this flagrent
> stealth license now, and release a version that users and distributors clearly
> are aware of any licensing impacts of their --with-xxx decisions.
FWIW, here's a patch (to trunk) that handles the GDBM side of things,
since it's like a 2 line change. Seems to work just fine here. I
didn't do anything about BDB, since the BDB part of the configure
scripts scare me...
-garrett
Index: build/dbm.m4
===================================================================
--- build/dbm.m4 (revision 374803)
+++ build/dbm.m4 (working copy)
@@ -607,6 +607,7 @@
requested=default
])
+ dnl We don't pull in GDBM unless the user asks for it, since it's GPL
AC_ARG_WITH([gdbm], [
--with-gdbm=DIR specify GDBM location
], [
@@ -626,9 +627,6 @@
APR_ADDTO(APRUTIL_INCLUDES, [-I$withval/include])
fi
fi
- ], [
- apu_have_gdbm=0
- AC_CHECK_HEADER(gdbm.h, AC_CHECK_LIB(gdbm, gdbm_open, [apu_have_gdbm=1]))
])
AC_ARG_WITH([ndbm], [
