[Buildroot] [git commit] Revert "berkeleydb: bump to version 6.0.20"
Peter Korsgaard
peter at korsgaard.com
Sun Oct 27 09:34:21 UTC 2013
commit: http://git.buildroot.net/buildroot/commit/?id=e12fab456540b5f378bd4a7ecbf0825df147c43e
branch: http://git.buildroot.net/buildroot/commit/?id=refs/heads/master
BerkeleyDB has changed its license since version 6. New license (AGPL) may
be incompatible with some packages. So we prefer to stick to version 5
This reverts commit 4c478de2e76ffc1d0a6dc413475307fd44a0a595.
[Peter: adjust comment as suggested by Yann]
Signed-off-by: Jérôme Pouiller <jezz at sysmic.org>
Acked-by: Gustavo Zacarias <gustavo at zacarias.com.ar>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter at korsgaard.com>
---
package/berkeleydb/berkeleydb.mk | 7 ++++++-
1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/package/berkeleydb/berkeleydb.mk b/package/berkeleydb/berkeleydb.mk
index 9b23623..0e3e830 100644
--- a/package/berkeleydb/berkeleydb.mk
+++ b/package/berkeleydb/berkeleydb.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,12 @@
#
################################################################################
-BERKELEYDB_VERSION = 6.0.20
+# Since BerkeleyDB version 6 and above are licensed under the Affero
+# GPL (AGPL), we want to keep this 'bdb' package at version 5.x to
+# avoid licensing issues.
+# BerkeleyDB version 6 or above should be provided by a dedicated
+# package instead.
+BERKELEYDB_VERSION = 5.3.21
BERKELEYDB_SITE = http://download.oracle.com/berkeley-db
BERKELEYDB_SOURCE = db-$(BERKELEYDB_VERSION).NC.tar.gz
BERKELEYDB_SUBDIR = build_unix
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