Kim van der Riet wrote:
IANAL, you may be correct. However, this decision was made about 2 years
ago out of an abundance of caution regarding non-apache-compatible
licenses. The reason LGPL was selected was that it is suited for use
with libraries (which this is - msgstore.so) which can be run against
the apache-licensed qpidd.
OK, so its self-inflicted. Shame its not dual-licensed as Apache/LGPL
with a tear-off option.
Or BSD.
Its just that it seemed to me similar to the APRutil/BDB situation - my
recollection was that the
BDB interface code was retained in-tree but that it was not compiled by
default in case a user
infected their own code.
It probably is better that it evolves into an interface implementation
anyway - hopefully Windows
will pick up a Jet implementation. Presumably you could ship a SQLite
one as a refeernce.
(Some things, COM did get right - we've been rather hasty as an industry
to abandon it, just
because of the registry - which is actually not a direct requirement anyway)
Thanks
James
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