Simon wrote: > Bad - One thing that concerned me greatly was the ambiguity around > whether the driver was going to be released - yes, amazing, but true - > originally the whole DB was redistributable as open source but not the > driver to access it!
To be fair the main (embedded) JDBC driver to access it was released under open source. I was surprised how many folks immediately used the networked JDBC driver, rather than the embedded mode. But then it was always a mind shift for folks to understand the embedded JDBC driver was the complete database engine. Client/Server is more naturally understood as it is more typical. > Well, I think this has been fixed for the java > access, but as far as I know if you want ODBC you are still NOT able > to redistribute the driver. I would love to hear if this is going to > change. Do I hear a volunteer for an open source ODBC driver for Derby? Dan.
