Received: from wallace.ece.rice.edu (wallace.ece.rice.edu [128.42.12.154]) by mail.postgresql.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id eAHKKZs66142 for ; Fri, 17 Nov 2000 15:20:35 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from reedstrm@rice.edu) Received: by rice.edu via sendmail from stdin id (Debian Smail3.2.0.102) for pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org; Fri, 17 Nov 2000 14:18:31 -0600 (CST) Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 14:18:31 -0600 From: "Ross J. Reedstrom" To: Peter Eisentraut Cc: The Hermit Hacker , Kevin Lo , Thomas Lockhart , Robert Smith , pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org Subject: Re: ODBC Maintainer? Message-ID: <20001117141831.A17971@rice.edu> Mail-Followup-To: Peter Eisentraut , The Hermit Hacker , Kevin Lo , Thomas Lockhart , Robert Smith , pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Mutt/1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from peter_e@gmx.net on Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 09:09:03PM +0100 X-Archive-Number: 200011/207 X-Sequence-Number: 243 On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 09:09:03PM +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > The Hermit Hacker writes: > > > If I recall correctly, it is under GPL, no? Which conflicts with our BSD > > liccense ... of course, I've been known to recall incorrectly at times :) > > Our ODBC driver is under the LGPL, same as unixODBC. There are no > "conflicts" as long as you don't copy code back and forth. Err, 'back and forth between the core and ODBC drivers', I presume? Ross -- Open source code is like a natural resource, it's the result of providing food and sunshine to programmers, and then staying out of their way. [...] [It] is not going away because it has utility for both the developers and users independent of economic motivations. Jim Flynn, Sunnyvale, Calif.