From: Marc G. Fournier <scrappy@hub.org>
To: Dave Page <dpage@postgresql.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 13:50:32 -0400
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- --On Friday, November 16, 2007 17:39:35 +0000 Dave Page <dpage@postgresql.org>
wrote:
> Marc G. Fournier wrote:
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>> - --On Friday, November 16, 2007 15:57:57 +0000 Dave Page
>> <dpage@postgresql.org> 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.
>>
>> 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.
Then the different licence schemes choosen for the product should be listed on
the page, so that ppl can choose, but the product should still be
alphabetically ordered .. just because *you* (and I) would choose a BSD
licensed product over a GPL licensed one, it shouldn't be up to us to force
that on others ...
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