More questions about BDB

[Garrett Cooper]

Dan Nelson wrote:
> 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.

	Correct.
	BDB 1.85 is also packaged in gnu libc I believe, which makes it a more 
portable means for representing databases without external libraries.
-Garrett