Once upon a time, Neal Gompa <ngompa13(a)gmail.com> said:
My understanding of the problem is that it's less about the
"doubts
about its future" and more about the fact Oracle inexplicably changed
the license with BDB 6.x to AGPLv3. Berkley DB 5.3 is old, and no one
has forked it and maintained it.
To me, it seems like it would be less work to maintain an already
implemented database (BDB) than to start from scratch. I understand
that nobody is happy with Oracle and their license change, but that
doesn't affect the version already in use in many places. If even a
couple of the current BDB users (say, OpenLDAP and RPM) had stepped up,
it probably wouldn't be that much work, but instead, everybody seems
intent on re-inventing their own wheels (and spending more effort in the
process).
--
Chris Adams <linux(a)cmadams.net>