Hi Balasz, I'm actually surprised to learn that all drivers except sqlite/sqlite3 are LGPL'ed. I wasn't aware that we distribute software with inconsistent licensing. I'd like to hear what the other developers think about this problem. Can we simply change the license of the sqlite/sqlite3 drivers to LGPL to make the whole thing consistent?
Please rest assured that we did not intentionally make the licensing a problem. I personally would not mind changing the license in the sqlite/sqlite3 drivers. regards, Markus Quoting Balazs Scheidler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > I'm thinking about using libdbi/libdbi-drivers in a dual-licensed > free/non-free product of ours (to be exact, the product is syslog-ng > which you might know) we would like to be able to distribute a > commercial alternative to the currently free version. > > The inconsistency that I see is: > > * libdbi is itself LGPLd, which is fine. > * libdbi-drivers states that it is GPLd in the root of the distribution > tarball, but individual drivers have an LGPL copyright header in the > beginning of the source files (for instance drivers/oracle/dbd_oracle.c > has LGPL header, but as I see all of them too). > > I understand that the license of various database libraries add further > problems to the mix (e.g. libmysqlclient is GPLd, oracle is a commercial > license, etc.) But assuming that we have proper commercial licenses for > the required set of databases, can we use libdbi + drivers to actually > use them? > > As I understand the header of the source file is really what matters, > but I certainly don't want to do anything that is against the intentions > of libdbi developers. > > Thanks in advance for any advice. > > -- > Bazsi > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > Libdbi-drivers-devel mailing list > Libdbi-drivers-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/libdbi-drivers-devel > -- Markus Hoenicka [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Spam-protected email: replace the quadrupeds with "mhoenicka") http://www.mhoenicka.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Libdbi-drivers-devel mailing list Libdbi-drivers-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/libdbi-drivers-devel
