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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