[Buildroot] [PATCH] Allow PHP to compile ans link with berkeleydb 6
Arnout Vandecappelle
arnout at mind.be
Tue Oct 8 07:20:20 UTC 2013
On 10/07/13 14:57, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Dear Gustavo Zacarias,
>
> On Mon, 07 Oct 2013 09:30:16 -0300, Gustavo Zacarias wrote:
>> On 10/07/2013 09:26 AM, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
>>
>>> Sorry, I forgot to add a smiley or something. To be "how useful
>>> BerkleyDB can be with PHP" was ironic, so I was actually meaning that I
>>> don't think PHP+BerkeleyDB is so useful, so that to me, the first
>>> option is perfectly acceptable.
>>
>> Seems to be useful to Jerome maybe since he cared about fixing it.
>> That being said the license is rotten and not only for PHP, we should
>> just stick away from bdb6 IMHO.
>
> Ok, so as discussed on IRC, my proposal would be:
>
> * Downgrade the berkeleydb package to the last known non-AGPL version
> (i.e essentially revert commit
> 4c478de2e76ffc1d0a6dc413475307fd44a0a595). This way, all existing
> packages in Buildroot that rely on berkeleydb continue to work with
> no change, and don't create a legal issue. Add a comment in the
> berkeleydb.mk file that explains why it shouldn't be bumped to v6 of
> the project.
>
> * If someone cares, integrate an additional berkeleydb6 package that
> packages the v6 of berkeleydb under AGPL.
I didn't follow the conversation on IRC, but IMHO this proposal has
important political implications. With this change, we are taking a
stand: non-copyleft software should be the default. So in my opinion, we
should instead make the default berkeleydb v6 and add a berkeleydb5
package for PHP.
I took a quick look at which other packages are using berkeleydb. Most
of them are compatible with GPL.
netatalk: GPLv2+ -> compatible (note that _LICENSE is missing)
perl: Aristic is not compatible, but GPLv1+ is (note that _LICENSE is wrong)
python: PSF license v2 is compatible
ruby: Ruby license is probably incompatible, but BSD-2c is (note that
_LICENSE is wrong). Unfortunately, there are also a few incompatible
files in the ruby distribution.
Footnote: except for python, none of the licenses above are actually
correctly defined in buildroot. This worries me...
Regards,
Arnout
> Jérôme, are you interested in doing such work?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Thomas
>
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