At 07:39 AM 3/30/00 -0800, Steve Belt wrote:
>I don't believe there is a version of Postgreql for windows, is there?
There are a few suggestions on the mailing list that an NT port has been
done (using the Cygnus tools) but I see no distribution on the web site.
If you need Windows, the best open-source database is probably going to be
Interbase, which is not open-source yet, but is supposed to be by June. See:
http://www.interbase.com/open/community/opensource_qa.html
Quotes:
When will the source be available?
As the Feb 14 press release stated, the source code will be available
before the end of Q2 2000 (June 30). However, we hope to make it available
sooner. We ask your indulgence: the build procedures assume that the
product is built only in our lab and these procedures are not easily
adapted. When we do open source the code, it will be in a format that is
understandable and usable by both our developers and the Open Source
community.
What platforms will be available?
All InterBase 6.0 platforms will be available. The first three will be
Linux, Windows and Solaris. These platforms will be followed by other
current InterBase platforms e.g. HP-UX, Cobalt, SCO, Novell, AIX etc as
time and resources permit. InterBase is likely to become available on other
platforms due to the porting efforts of the open source community e.g.
FreeBSD.
Which license will be used to release the source?
Interbase plans to make its source code available under an Interbase
variant of the Mozilla Public License (MPL 1.1), as was stated in the
February 14th press release.
The Mozilla Public License contains a rigorous definition of when and how
derived works fall under the MPL provisions ("Covered Code"). Modifications
of original source or new source incorporating extracts of the original
source must be licensed under MPL. Their source must be made freely and
publicly available. However the Mozilla Public License does explicitly
permit MPL'd code to be combined with separate proprietary code to create a
proprietary program ("Larger Work"). Such a program can be licensed for a
fee and its proprietary source code need not be made public, so long as the
proprietary code is separate and interfaces with the open source code using
a defined API. The separation between Open Source and proprietary code is
made at the source file boundaries, a given source file is either under
MPL, or under a different license.
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