Re: clarification of doc licensing for db3/db4.2

2006-05-10 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 09:00:16AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Clint Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Have we already gotten rid of db4.3? That's a better place to start than getting rid of db4.2, as db4.3 had serious issues and at least some of the packages linked against db4.2 were doing

Re: clarification of doc licensing for db3/db4.2

2006-05-10 Thread Russ Allbery
Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 09:00:16AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: That's the largest and most noticable issue. Quanah's reported other problems as well in edge cases. It's a moot point at this point since db4.4 is out and (suitably patched) will work

Re: clarification of doc licensing for db3/db4.2

2006-05-09 Thread Clint Adams
Have we already gotten rid of db4.3? That's a better place to start than getting rid of db4.2, as db4.3 had serious issues and at least some of the packages linked against db4.2 were doing that specifically to avoid db4.3. db4.3 had serious issues with OpenLDAP in particular and the OpenLDAP

Re: clarification of doc licensing for db3/db4.2

2006-05-09 Thread Russ Allbery
Clint Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Have we already gotten rid of db4.3? That's a better place to start than getting rid of db4.2, as db4.3 had serious issues and at least some of the packages linked against db4.2 were doing that specifically to avoid db4.3. db4.3 had serious issues with

Re: clarification of doc licensing for db3/db4.2

2006-05-08 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Please forward this as appropriate. I wasn't sure what was appropriate, so I sent it to -release only (for archival purposes, that's where people will look for this sort of analysis). aba wrote: However, given both history and that db4.2 was quite much used in sarge (and db3 was still in major

Re: clarification of doc licensing for db3/db4.2

2006-05-08 Thread Russ Allbery
Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Now for the much shorter list of packages depending on db4.2. Have we already gotten rid of db4.3? That's a better place to start than getting rid of db4.2, as db4.3 had serious issues and at least some of the packages linked against db4.2 were doing

Re: clarification of doc licensing for db3/db4.2

2006-05-04 Thread Andreas Barth
Hi, sorry for not responding earlier. * Mike Olson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060410 03:51]: This is going to be some work for me. Oracle's legal department has been very helpful on our open source requests so far, but it's a large team and is not familiar with this issue yet. I'll need to find,

Re: clarification of doc licensing for db3/db4.2

2006-04-25 Thread dann frazier
(I believe the DPL has changed since my last request, so I'm resending this request for assistance; I'm also adding debian-release to the CC list as this concerns a potential stable update and a potential pre-etch migration, and the DB maintenance team). hey AJ, We are in need of some