From: Dave Page <dpage@postgresql.org>
To: Andrew Sullivan <ajs@crankycanuck.ca>
Cc: pgsql-www@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: change to interfaces.html
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 16:42:33 +0000
Message-ID: <473DC879.8010003@postgresql.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071116163542.GL24718@crankycanuck.ca>
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Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> I'd prefer we not get into a flamewar over this, all, but I'm a little
> concerned about this:
>
> On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 03:57:57PM +0000, Dave Page wrote:
>> - 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.
>
> I think the complaint there is the dual licence stuff, and not the GPL as
> such (at least, I'd hope so, since otherwise there'd be a similar objection
> to the linux kernel licence, and there doesn't seem to be). I don't see on
> the ODBCng pages any suggestion of a second licence. Is there?
No - I was pointing out that MySQL are an example of a company using the
uncertainty of how the GPL would or would not apply to an ODBC driver to
help them sell software.
I should make it clear that I do not believe that is JD/Command Prompt's
intention - JD has stated a number of times that they follow the more
liberal interpretation.
/D
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