On Thu, 15 May 2014 09:47:37 -0700, Quanah Gibson-Mount stated: >--On May 15, 2014 at 4:31:05 PM +0200 Mark Martinec ><mark.martinec+post...@ijs.si> wrote: > >> Robert Sander wrote: >>> I remember that Mark Martinec mentioned a license change in Berkeley DB >>> version 6 to the Affero GPL that forces Amavis to switch to LMDB. The >>> additional provision requires that the complete source code be made >>> available to any network user of the AGPL-licensed work >>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_DB#Licensing >> >> Actually it was Wietse who said that, referring to postfix. >> >> Regarding Amavis I said that the main reason for switching >> BerkeleyDB to ZMQ message passing was lock contention and a >> slowdown of a database after long use, requiring maintenance. >> The license change was just an additional incentive for the >> change. I may look at LMDB in the future, but the current >> needs of Amavis are well served by ZMQ, and Redis (or SQL). >> The LMDB would probably be more suitable for use by SpamAssassin. > >I've been (slowly) hacking up a LMDB version of the Bayes DB for SA, but I >keep having to defer that for other work. So someone else may beat me to >it. > >--Quanah
Using version 6 on a FreeBSD machine is not really a necessity anyway. All I wanted to do was eliminate having multiple version numbers of the same program on my machine. In any case, unless the FreeBSD port maintainer chooses to modify the Postfix port to allow it to compile, it doesn't make any difference what license Berkeley 6 is under. -- Jerry
