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Re-licensing Berkeley DB back to

1039368Sep 10 2013 — edited Oct 3 2013

Hi guys,

I'm not sure if this has already been discussed here or even if this is right place to request such thing. If there is a better place, just point me there, please.

My question is simple -- can upstream even think about re-licensing Berkeley DB 6.0 back to LGPLv2? It's not hard to imagine how many problems with licensing incompatibility were introduced by re-licensing Berkeley DB to AGPLv3. There are so many projects that use Berkeley DB and cannot be re-licensed as well, which basically means Berkeley DB started to die since 6.0, because such projects will need to switch to some alternative.. If this was desired by upstream to remove BDB from real life, then I can understand it. But anyway, I'd like to hear there is no way to convince upstream to re-licence back.

Regards,

Honza

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