Time to move away from Berkeley DB

[Dan White]

On 07/02/13 09:58 +0200, Ondřej Surý wrote:
>Hi,
>
>you might have noticed that Oracle has released Berkeley DB 6.0, and in
>unfortunate move they relicensed the BDB to AGPLv3 which makes it
>incompatible with anything else than AGPLv3 or GPLv3.
>
>E.g. this makes cyrus licensing incompatible with Berkeley DB 6.0 since it
>would require dual licensing which I hardly think makes sense.
>
>Thus I think it's time to kill the Berkeley DB support in cyrus-imapd-2.5,
>and start thinking about the replacement for cyrus-sasl sasldb (would
>skiplist work here? or should we use sqlite3, kyotocabinet or anything
>else?).

With regards to cyrus-sasl, Lightining DB is another option:

http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/cyrus-sasl/2012-March/002479.html

It's released under the OpenLDAP Public License, which I assume is
compatible since ldapdb is released under the same license.

-- 
Dan White