On Oct 4, 2004, at 8:13 PM, Dick Applebaum wrote:
On Oct 4, 2004, at 2:39 PM, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote:
On Oct 4, 2004, at 1:35 PM, Kathy Saunders wrote:
Dick Applebaum wrote:
Does this mean that Apache can/will include the driver in the Derby distro --kind of a pita to have to go 2 places to assemble a runnable DerbyApache can include the driver in the Derby distrobution (I believe there are some license requirements to do so. If the Derby community wants to do that, it should be OK. I don't know what Apache's general policy is on inlcuding non-open source in one if its releases. I do know that Apache often points to other sites to obtain free software.
Dick
Why don't you release a OSS version of a driver for derby, or have the community develop one...
Do We really want another driver?
No, but we really want another license. I'd bet we could get a driver written faster than IBM would take to donate to the ASF, or relicense under terms that the ASF would accept to keep the jar here in SVN.
Some how, Macromedia is able to redistro a DB2 (Cloudscape/Derby) driver with ColdFusion MX -- why can't Apache.org.
One is a commercial entity that's packaging the driver w/ a product, and the other is an OSS organization that by keeping the jar in SVN would be violating the terms of the IBM license, or by distributing in a derby release would be violating the ASFs policy of not releasing code that has license terms more restrictive than the Apache License.
It would seem to be in the best interests of Apache.org, IBM and potential users.
I agree. It's up to the ASF and users to lobby IBM to do the Right Thing (tm)(sm)(R)
geir
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