On Thursday, November 10, 2011 05:23 Steven Schveighoffer wrote: > On Thu, 10 Nov 2011 00:55:01 -0500, Steve Teale > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > The libraries for unixODBC and for FreeTDS (communication with SQL > > Server) are LGPL. > > > > Would a D ODBC driver that used these be compatible with Phobos? > > glibc, which dmd (and all Linux binaries) rely on is LGPL. So if you are > saying what I think you are saying, yes. As long as the LGPL code is kept > in a *separate* shared object, it is perfectly legal to link with it > without infecting phobos' license.
Though the fact that it needs to be in a separate shared object does make it problematic to stick in Phobos, since Phobos is just one shared object. So, if he's looking to put it _in_ Phobos, then I don't think that we can do that with the current setup. - Jonathan M Davis
