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Date:      Sun, 20 May 2007 21:22:08 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        Sean Bryant <sean@cyberwang.net>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu>
Subject:   Re: More questions about BDB
Message-ID:  <20070521022208.GD13345@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <4650FF62.1060000@cyberwang.net>
References:  <4650D8F1.3060701@u.washington.edu> <4650FF62.1060000@cyberwang.net>

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In the last episode (May 20), Sean Bryant said:
>  Just a personal curiosity. Is there a particular reason why FreeBSD
>  is holding on to BDB 1.85?

All later versions have a non-BSD license (a source redistribution
requirement was added), which means it can't go in the base system. 
BDB is built into libc and is used for the hashed passwd & termcap
databases.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com



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