Berkeley DB 2.x and GNOME

[Miguel de Icaza <miguel nuclecu unam mx>]

> 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.

I do believe that the license of DB 2.x allows this iff you do not
expose the DB 2.x internal interfaces to userland.  

I do not know the details of this, but glibc2 uses it internally,
probably Ulrich can tell us how is this managed by glibc2?

miguel.