cdb support

[Matthias Andree]

Greg Louis <glouis at dynamicro.on.ca> writes:

[Nigel Metheringham's CDB implementation]
>      This code implements Dan Bernstein's Constant DataBase (cdb) spec.
>      Information, the spec and sample code for cdb can be obtained from
>      http://www.pobox.com/~djb/cdb.html. This implementation borrows some code
>      from Dan Bernstein's implementation (which has no license restrictions
>      applied to it).

If the stuff includes modified DJB code, I cannot distribute it, and I
doubt that David could either. I don't want to go into any of those "you
can ship the verbatim stuff and a patch" hassles if there is Michael
Tokarev's public domain implementation that does not borrow code.

We have a license to ship verbatim tarballs, not derivative works. If
there is evidence that DJB put cdb (or cdb-0.75, specifically) into the
public domain or allowed distribution in part, I'd like to see that.

  "Information for distributors

   You may distribute unmodified copies of the cdb package.

   Packages that need to read cdb files should incorporate the necessary
   portions of the cdb library rather than relying on an external cdb
   library." (Daniel J. Bernstein, in http://cr.yp.to/cdb.html)

No license = no permission to ship it, §106 UrHG (German Copyright Act),
threatens up to three years in prison or fine. The attempt is culpable.

It may look like nitpicking and not implying that "you should
incorporate" implies a license, but nitpicking is the lawyer's job. >:-)

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Matthias Andree