On 02/22/2011 01:33 PM, Chris Dornan wrote:
Hi John,
Two thoughts: is there any prospect of making HDBC available under a
BSD-like license? The LGPL license is a significant barrier for me and I
expect it will be for others.
I'm happy to discuss this with people. It would be helpful to
understand concrete cases where this would be a problem. I have
permitted other code to be relicensed under BSD in the past and so don't
have a huge hangup about this. If it's the best thing for the
community, I'd be likely to do it. On the other hand, I have seen
numerous cases over the years where BSD code has been taken by some
company and essentially forked into a proprietary version. I feel this
is not in the long-term interests of the community, and that drawback
has to be weighed against any advantage.
And, along the lines of your own comments, the ODBC interface raises a
significant (technical) barrier for MySQL users. Is there any chance
that we can encourage/help getting the the MySQL driver closer to
production quality?
The short answer is probably to send patches to its author or fork it.
Or fund someone else to do so.
-- John
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