[Python-Dev] Incorporating bsddb3

[Guido van Rossum]

> > What happens if you don't have the software installed to make this
> > work, but you do have what it takes to make the *old* bsddb module
> > work?  I presume that one bites the dust now?
> 
> That would be bsddb2, which is still supported in the old
> bsddbmodule.c, but not bsddb3.
> 
> I would propose to continue shipping bsddbmodule.c. Building and using
> that would then require manual intervention.

Perhaps it could be made into an alternative for _bsddb to make that
simpler (someone could even contribute code to let setup.py decide).

What's the license on the bsddb3 Python extension?

What's the license on the BerkeleyDB code from Sleepycat?  Can we
legally distribute RPMs or other binaries containing it?  (I thought
there were some restrictions that make it not open source.)

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)