3rd party dependencies

3rd party code built into WiredTiger binaries

The WiredTiger library binary includes the following 3rd party software, distributed under the following licenses:

Location	License	Purpose
src/include/bitstring.i	Modified BSD	Bitmap functions in C
src/include/queue.h	Modified BSD	Basic data tructures in C
src/utilities/util_getopt.h	Modified BSD	Command line parsing to avoid portability issues with getopt

3rd party code included in the repository

In addition, WiredTiger includes a number of 3rd party files in the source repository (and also in release packages). These files are not included in any WiredTiger binaries. The details are as follows:

Location	License	Purpose
src/docs/tools/doxypy	GPLv2	API documentation helper script for the Python API
test/3rdparty/discover-*	Modified BSD	Python unit test discovery (for Python versions prior to 2.7)
test/3rdparty/testscenarios-*	Modified BSD	Python unit test support
test/3rdparty/testscenarios-*	MIT	Python unit test extensions

Tools used to build release packages

WiredTiger uses a number of 3rd party tools to build release packages that generate files in the release. These tools are used under the following open source licenses:

Tool name	License	Purpose	Generated files
GNU autoconf	GPLv3+, exception for generated code	Configuration scripts	configure, aclocal.m4, */Makefile, build_posix/config.hin, build_posix/gnu-support/*
GNU automake	GPLv2+	Generate make files	*/Makefile.in
GNU libtool	GPLv2+	Portable library building script	build_posix/aclocal/*
Doxygen	GPL v2	Generate documentation	docs/*
SWIG	GPL v3, generated code permissive	Generate language APIs	lang/python/{wiredtiger.py,wiredtiger_wrap.c}