I'm curious. Does the requirement that contributions be under BSD
preclude drizzle from including other GPL software? For example, could
a GPL crypto package be included with drizzle?
I have great sympathy for Brian position. It is so much more fun to
talk about what software can do that to bicker about keeping folks we
don't think we like from using it.
Without Sun's support, Brian, Jay, and Stewart wouldn't be available, at
least at Sun's expense, for drizzle. If Sun would like to retain the
illusion that they could somebody benefit monetarily from it, who is to
blame them?
So let's concentrate on inclusion and just skip the focus on exclusion.
Personally, I like open source because it means that people can work at
the cutting edge of technology without having to re-implement the same
boring stuff over and over and over. As I've said many times, the worst
thing about starting yet another database company is having to write
another stinking string to date function. Oracle's going to make me do
it again. Fie, Oracle! Fie! Fie! I intensely dislike GPLs fixation
on preventing people from getting benefit from freely available
software, but not enough to argue with Brian.
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