https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=878089 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=878089#c0 Summary: libdb-6 is licensed by AGPLv3+ and libdb-5 won't be supported forever Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 13.1 Version: Final Platform: All OS/Version: openSUSE 13.2 Status: NEW Severity: Enhancement Priority: P5 - None Component: Basesystem AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: hhorak@redhat.com QAContact: qa-bugs@suse.de Found By: --- Blocker: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:29.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/29.0 This is not a real bug yet, but rather a future-to-be issue with BerkeleyDB (libdb), which got changed license from GPLv2+ to AGPLv3+ since version 6. This change makes a license problem for many depended packages, that cannot be re-licensed to (A)GPLv3+. One day, even openSUSE will need to solve the issue that libdb-4.8 is no supported by upstream any more (according to [3] libdb-5.3 will get eol in Dec 2016). Using this bug I'd like to establish cross-distribution collaboration to find some common way out of this. Debian seems to drop affords for including libdb-6 for now and will stay with libdb-5.3 if it is possible. In Fedora, we are currently trying to find out the best solution in the threads [1] and [2]. I'd like to ask what is the plan for openSUSE, if there is one. [1] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2014-April/197788.html [2] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2014-May/199026.html [3] http://www.oracle.com/us/support/library/lifetime-support-technology-069183.... Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: See license of libdb-6 Actual Results: Many packages won't be able to use libdb-6. Expected Results: Some solution found. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.