On Thu, 10 Nov 2011 13:10:26 -0500, Jonathan M Davis <[email protected]>
wrote:
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.
My understanding is that the FreeTDS is its *own* shared object (installed
separately). We cannot include LGPL code in phobos.lib.
BTW, phobos is not a shared object (yet).
-Steve
