In message <Pine.NEB.4.10.10002201016170.6163-100000@starwolf.com>, Greywolf wr
ites:
>So what's the deal with db1 vs db2?  db is Berkeley DB, so what's going
>on?  Is it GPL'd or is it so ridiculously restrictive on terms that it
>won't be useful to aught but the Original Berkeley Folks [TM]?
>I've seen some stuff go by on that, but I think I've deleted them.

db2 is available under special license terms called the "sleepycat" license,
the idea of which is to encourage people like Netscape to spend $many on a
license to distribute it without source - but this won't work for NetBSD.

-s