Re: SECURITY: bug in Berkeley DB on some systems (eg. Solaris <= 2.5) [#375]

["Michael K. Johnson" <johnsonm redhat com>]

Jeff Garzik writes:
>I don't know the exact specifics of licensing, but I know that
>Mozilla uses (can use?) DB 2.x, so I know it is freely linkable to
>non-commercial software.

We just don't want to force GNOME software to link against it
directly or indirectly, because GNOME libraries should be LGPL
or equivalent, allowing commercial software to be linked against
them.

michaelkjohnson

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