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Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> Dave Page wrote:
>> Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> 
>> We do - we prefer the community code over the one produced and
>> maintained by a single company, and released under a licence that is
>> potentially very restrictive (depending on the interpretation which
>> has yet to be tested in court afaik).
> 
> Uhmmm o.k. now I am ticked. Dave you are full of it on this one. The
> license chosen is one the most trusted Open Source licenses in existed.
> It is the GPL for god sake.

I believe Dave is referring to the part about if the "linking" of a
driver counts enough to force the application to become GPL or not that
hasn't been tested. LGPL conveniently gets around that problem.


> And although we are the primary developers of ODBCng we do accept
> patches, the source can be downloaded via Anonymous SVN.
> 
> There is no different between ODBC and ODBCng except your ridiculous and
> ignorant attitude.
> 
> The real difference between ODBCng and ODBC is that ODBCng is
> continually tested, continually developed, and continually improved. Or
> is that the part that bothers you?