BerkeleyDB 5.3 is under the Sleepycat license, not AGPL #30489
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Motivation for this change
Somehow, with this commit, the license for BerkeleyDB 5.3 has been changed
As you can see from the source tarball (though ideally we would look at the original tarball, as it had been released years ago), these are the contents of its LICENSE:
Which matches the Sleepycat license (which is the one selected in the
generic.nix
). Moreover, marking 5.3 as AGPL-licensed, conflicts with what's stated hereThings done
build-use-sandbox
innix.conf
on non-NixOS)nix-shell -p nox --run "nox-review wip"
./result/bin/
)