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Re: py-bsddb3 (was Re: BAD Python compilation directives)



On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 02:22:47PM +0100, Jesus Cea wrote:
> Thomas, I see this change 15 minutes ago
> <http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/pkgsrc/databases/py-bsddb3/Makefile>:
> 
> """
> Allow db6 and set up the environment correctly so this builds
> automatically against it.
> 
> Users have to have accepted the db6 license already for installing it
> anyway.
> """
> 
> That is not right.
> 
> If you use db6 and you don't pay Oracle, your program *MUST* be AGPL3.

In pkgsrc, you have to accept the db6 license (AGPL3) when installing
the db6 package. You can only build bsddb3 when db6 is already
installed. So you already have to have accepted the db6 license. What
am I missing?
 Thomas


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