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Re: db1 is a mess, why don't we go with db2 or db3

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Tibbetts)
Wed May 3 11:56:32 2000

Message-Id: <200005031556.LAA00606@hikari-no-ken.mit.edu>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
cc: Richard Tibbetts <tibbetts@MIT.EDU>, aui@MIT.EDU, tibbetts@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 03 May 2000 11:39:06 EDT."
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Date: Wed, 03 May 2000 11:56:05 -0400
From: Richard Tibbetts <tibbetts@MIT.EDU>

On 5/3 Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU> wrote:
> It's not compatible with the GPL.

Oh, ok. I didn't look at it that way.

> There is a version of db2, based on an alpha release and fixed up by
> the krb5 team, which does have an acceptable license.  It's in
> /mit/source/third/krb5/src/util/db2.  It seems to be totally separable
> from the krb5 build system, although it doesn't install itself (so
> we'd have to hack Makefile.in a little bit).

Alright, I will look at this today. Would you suggest importing it
into aui, or frobbing its build system to put it in the right place so
that aui can use it, or something else?

tibbetts

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