Hi Petr,
thank you for bringing this up.
Am 22.07.2016 um 08:06 schrieb Petr Kubat:
Hi everyone,
with the license of Berkeley DB version 6 having changed to a more restrictive APGL license, which is legally incompatible with most of the projects currently using BDB, Fedora's long term goal is to get rid of BDB completely. As ipv6calc is one of the projects still dependent on BDB in Fedora, I would like to ask you about the status of BDB in the project.
Do you currently have any plans to migrate to/provide compatibility with a different DB given the license change or will you be staying with an older BDB version for the time being?
I've choosen Berkeley DB sometime in the past to have a common working database layer covering - EL 5, EL 6, EL 7 and Fedora - ability to use Perl for DB generation while using DB inside a C programm - no special feature are used, means the C program is only reading the DB and the Perl program is only generating the DB
=> no need to update the program to use Berkeley DB version 6
If there are long term plans to remove Berkeley DB even version <= 5 completly from Fedora (and therefore also from upcoming EL) I have to change to a different database in the future but keeping compatibility for some time.
=> what are the plans here for future Fedora and EL versions (e.g. EL 8)?
=> which database do you recommend to use then, supported at least since EL 6 (as EL 5 will go EOSL next year) in C and Perl on same easy way?
Regards, Peter