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Re: database management package...

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Wed Aug 16 05:15:04 1995 )

From: frankc@netcom.com (Frank Crowell)
To: coldstuff@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 1995 02:06:22 -0700 (PDT)
In-Reply-To: <9508150403.AA08493@hydepark.declab.usu.edu> from "869683 Gillespie Brandon James" at Aug 14, 95 10:03:56 pm

869683 Gillespie Brandon James wrote:
> 
> Does anybody forsee any problem with switching the driver to use gnu's
> dbm package, over the standard unix package?  The reason for this switch
> is that there are a few os's which don't implement ndbm right, or buggy
> (such as solaris), and centralizing on a readily available and free
> package may help out some people...
> 

What is the license (GPL) implication of this?  If you use the gnu
package then I think you have to make it available to the server
builders.  Isn't that the way GPL works?


Frank