From: matthewv@chiark.greenend.org.uk 
  
 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? 
  
 Matthew 
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