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Date:      Mon, 3 Aug 1998 19:05:26 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
To:        ejs@bfd.com (Eric J. Schwertfeger)
Cc:        tlambert@primenet.com, peter@netplex.com.au, osa@serv.etrust.ru, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Sendmail-8.9.1 in -current & in 3.0-RELEASE???
Message-ID:  <199808031905.MAA00483@usr07.primenet.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.01.9808030914100.17715-100000@harlie.bfd.com> from "Eric J. Schwertfeger" at Aug 3, 98 09:16:59 am

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> > The Sleepycat license (the dbm code required by sendmail is under this
> > license) is insidious in that it is effectively GPL.
> 
> Sendmail 8.9.1 has no problems using the FreeBSD db code, DB 2.0 is not
> required.  I think the actual requirement is for something at least as new
> as 1.5, though they do talk about bugs in 1.5. In the future, DB < 2.00
> compatibility may be phased out (not discussed, just being realistic) but
> it hasn't happened yet.

Thanks for the info.  It looks like there is no problem now, but
that there will be, in the future.  I defer my question until then.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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