Differential D40366
devel/apr1: support building DBM with BDB 1.85 Authored by ngie on Jun 1 2023, 7:11 AM. Tags None Referenced Files
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This change modifies the libapr1 configure logic to search for db_open, Pass the appropriate arguments to configure to support this fact. Add USES+=autoreconf to regenerate configure from configure.in/build_dbm.m4 .
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Event TimelineComment Actions libc/db in base is currently BSD-3-Clause. Advertising clause removed from FreeBSD source tree in 2007. Comment Actions I'm not sure we need to mark it as dual licensed if using the BSD licensed db 1.85. The BSD license does not make requirements on derivative works like AGPLv3 does, just on distribution of the lib itself (in binary or source form). The base FreeBSD OS already takes care of those requirements since it is the distributor of db 1.85. I suppose clause 3 is a requirement on derived works (to not use the University's or contributors' names for endorsement of derived works). But other parts of libc are BSD licensed, and we typically don't mark every port that uses libc as dual licensed with the BSD license.
Comment Actions @rfyu28uyeg_snkmail.com: thank you for the input about the licensing. You're right -- I'm updating the patch now.
Comment Actions Respond to comments from @rfyu28uyeg_snkmail.com:
Comment Actions I think this is good. I'd be inclined to switch BDB to BDB1 for the default. The AGPLv3 licensed BDB should probably not be the default. See also https://bugs.freebsd.org/261523#c30 - other people are thinking along the same lines (to use bdb from base). | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||