[Buildroot] [PATCH] Allow PHP to compile ans link with berkeleydb 6

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Dear Gustavo Zacarias,

On Mon, 07 Oct 2013 09:30:16 -0300, Gustavo Zacarias wrote:
> On 10/07/2013 09:26 AM, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> 
> > Sorry, I forgot to add a smiley or something. To be "how useful
> > BerkleyDB can be with PHP" was ironic, so I was actually meaning that I
> > don't think PHP+BerkeleyDB is so useful, so that to me, the first
> > option is perfectly acceptable.
> 
> Seems to be useful to Jerome maybe since he cared about fixing it.
> That being said the license is rotten and not only for PHP, we should
> just stick away from bdb6 IMHO.

Ok, so as discussed on IRC, my proposal would be:

 * Downgrade the berkeleydb package to the last known non-AGPL version
   (i.e essentially revert commit
   4c478de2e76ffc1d0a6dc413475307fd44a0a595). This way, all existing
   packages in Buildroot that rely on berkeleydb continue to work with
   no change, and don't create a legal issue. Add a comment in the
   berkeleydb.mk file that explains why it shouldn't be bumped to v6 of
   the project.

 * If someone cares, integrate an additional berkeleydb6 package that
   packages the v6 of berkeleydb under AGPL.

Jérôme, are you interested in doing such work?

Best regards,

Thomas
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