More questions about BDB

Dan Nelson dnelson at allantgroup.com
Mon May 21 02:32:29 UTC 2007


In the last episode (May 20), Sean Bryant said:
>  Just a personal curiosity. Is there a particular reason why FreeBSD
>  is holding on to BDB 1.85?

All later versions have a non-BSD license (a source redistribution
requirement was added), which means it can't go in the base system. 
BDB is built into libc and is used for the hashed passwd & termcap
databases.

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com


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