[asb]

It would be nice if DJB would release CDB under the public domain like he has now done with most of his other software. However, there's a great public domain implementation by Michael Tokarev I'd recommend: http://www.corpit.ru/mjt/tinycdb.html

[zandorg]

A caveat to TinyCDB in Windows:

Don't forget (In Windows) to specify O_BINARY eg:

  O_RDONLY |O_BINARY

Also the case in Berkeley DB 1.86.

Otherwise it opens a file in ASCII mode, when Windows writes \r\n when it reads in \n... , and dies after just a few records.

[asb]

I have a Lua binding to tinycdb. I hadn't considered Windows compatibility and this bug exists in my code. I've just committed a fix, thanks.

[kree10]

The first lines of cdb.c and cdb.h read "/* Public domain */". I would expect DJB to spell this out more explicitly if he releases an updated cdb package. I say "if" because the last release was Feb 2000.

[asb]

I hadn't noticed that. Wikipedia explains the licensing in more details (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constant_Data_Base#Library) - the library code is public domain (and included in the public domain djbdns), but the rest of the package is under djb's annoying "You may distribute unmodified copies" license.