Re: [pgsql-www] change to interfaces.html - Mailing list pgsql-interfaces

[ Discussion moved to "interfaces" list.]

I think the unspoken complaint is why you would license an ODBC driver
as GPL rather than LGPL, especially if you are not trying to enforce a
burden on linked software.  Frankly I thought the LGPL was the GPL
without the linking clause, so why use the GPL in that case?

Of course, you can license it however you want, but my bet is that is
the underlying complaint, and the fact that ODBCng is kind of a fork of
the psqlODBC driver that can't really be used because of the GPL, no
matter how much you say there is no link/source burden.  It feels like a
GPL splinter project, kind of like taking the Postgres backend code and
trying to release a GPL version (which you also could do, but community
members aren't going to be thrilled about it).

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Joshua D. Drake wrote:
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> On Fri, 16 Nov 2007 13:37:21 -0400
> "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> wrote:
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> > > Just because a company does the primary development that does not
> > > mean it is not community code. Command Prompt is "core" on the
> > > ODBCng project. Nothing more.
> > 
> > These arguments I do agree with ... maybe some sort of 'feature
> > matrix' is needed where we're dealing with multiple versions ... have
> > an ODBC.html page and allow other 'versions' of ODBC include their
> > products, commercial and open source ...
> 
> To be clear (again).
> 
> I do not care that ODBCng is placed under psqlODBC. I do agree with
> Marc's argument that Alphabetical would be better, but I really don't
> care other than that.
> 
> What I do care about is the argument above. ODBCng "is" a community
> project. What set me off, and what continues to raise my ire is the
> obvious bias, ignorance and bigotry against an Open Source project that
> is a community project, just because a company, which happens to be one
> of the most prevalent supporters of the PostgreSQL community is the
> primary developer.
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Joshua D. Drake
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