From: zeha@debian.org 
  
 * Matthew Vernon  [251005 11:48]: 
 >Chris Hofstaedtler  writes: 
 > 
 >> as you likely are aware, the db5.3 package ("Berkeley DB", short "bdb" 
 >> or just "db") is orphaned in Debian, and also upstream (Oracle) 
 >> changed the license for new versions. It is also a popular library for 
 >> "simple" databases. This leaves us with the problem that we ship this 
 >> to our users, but the future of it seems problematic and possibly 
 >> unsupportable. 
 > 
 >Probably-silly question, but: Comdb2 contains a BDB fork retaining the 
 >original permissive licence ( within https://github.com/bloomberg/comdb2 
 >); might that be suitable replacement? 
  
 This was brought up in the past as #1010965. 
  
 But as nobody stepped up as a maintainer for db5.3 in Debian, maybe 
 we still should see to remove db5.3, or at least reduce the 
 dependencies. For life support, patches could be drawn from comdb2. 
  
 Chris 
  
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