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Subject: [exim-dev] [Bug 2206] error messages Berkeley DB error: BDB1565 DB->pget: method not permitted
https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2206

--- Comment #12 from Andreas Metzler <eximusers@???> ---
(In reply to Heiko Schlittermann from comment #8)
> Is there any reason to use the BDB 6.x series? Why not 5.x? It looks like an
> API change we're not aware of yet.
>
> As far as I see (I may be wrong, as always), the version you use isn't in
> use in the wide public yet (distros and such)?


In version 6.0 (2013) Oracle changed the license to AGPLv3 which is a terrible
license for a library. The result was that distributions (Debian, Fedora, ...)
stayed with bdb 5.

https://lwn.net/Articles/557820/

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