Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.182]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C69C2E2E59 for ; Fri, 16 Nov 2007 11:58:05 -0400 (AST) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.182]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 16155-09 for ; Fri, 16 Nov 2007 11:57:56 -0400 (AST) Received: from developer.pgadmin.org (developer.pgadmin.org [63.246.23.140]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E9022E2E5D for ; Fri, 16 Nov 2007 11:58:02 -0400 (AST) Received: from [172.16.0.68] ([78.149.184.17]) (authenticated bits=0) by developer.pgadmin.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id lAGFvsFq022610 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 16 Nov 2007 15:57:55 GMT Message-ID: <473DBE05.2030609@postgresql.org> Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 15:57:57 +0000 From: Dave Page User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows/20071031) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Joshua D. Drake" CC: "Marc G. Fournier" , Magnus Hagander , pgsql-www@postgresql.org Subject: Re: change to interfaces.html References: <20071115105151.79ff8061@scratch> <473C9D0A.1090409@hagander.net> <20071115112738.60c3a837@scratch> <9B276A8E7D64C7A3E5CFD1ED@ganymede.hub.org> <473D5A2A.9070904@postgresql.org> <473D6006.7080504@postgresql.org> <473DB9E9.3000006@commandprompt.com> In-Reply-To: <473DB9E9.3000006@commandprompt.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200711/285 X-Sequence-Number: 13063 Joshua D. Drake wrote: > Dave Page wrote: >> Marc G. Fournier wrote: >>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >>> Hash: SHA1 > >> 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. Yes, which is a constant cause of debate when used with a driver, for example: - The discussions that have cropped up yet again a week or two back on the ODBC mailing list. - The general Open Source community's annoyance at MySQL GPL'ing their drivers precisely because they want people to pay for the non-GPL licence. > And although we are the primary developers of ODBCng we do accept > patches, the source can be downloaded via Anonymous SVN. I didn't say you didn't. > There is no different between ODBC and ODBCng except your ridiculous and > ignorant attitude. You are expecting the PostgreSQL Community to not favour it's own driver on it's own website over one maintained by a third party company? Thats not at all ridiculous. I can just imagine what you would say if I tried to push an EDB product over an community one *on the community website*. > 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? > Not at all. Hiroshi Saito and Hiroshi Inoue have been doing an excellent job on psqlODBC over the last year or more. /D