From: Dave Page <dpage@postgresql.org>
To: Marc G. Fournier <scrappy@hub.org>
Cc: Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
Cc: pgsql-www@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: change to interfaces.html
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 17:39:35 +0000
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Marc G. Fournier wrote:
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> - --On Friday, November 16, 2007 15:57:57 +0000 Dave Page <dpage@postgresql.org>
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>> - 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.
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> Isn't MySQLs Dual-Licensed, for that reason? I don't believe CMDs is
> Dual-Licensed, is it? Does CMD *have* a 'commercial version' of their ODBC
> driver that has more features?
No, and I didn't mean to imply it does. I believe CP are at the other
end of the scale from MySQL - MySQL are taking the restrictive stance,
whilst CP are taking the liberal stance.
It's the fact that the licence allows those different interpretations
that I believe is a serious problem.
/D
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