Yeap, we changed license so it would be more aligned with server license itself and also to help users with commercial products. Although LGPL already allowed them to use Npgsql, they had fears about it. Another motivation was VS.Net design support which may impose some restrictions in code distribution in source form which would give a conflict with LGPL.
On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 13:04, Daniel Morgan <[email protected]> wrote: > Npgsql developers have re-licensed Npgsql under the BSD license. > http://fxjr.blogspot.com/2007/08/npgsql-license-changed-to-bsd_27.html > > Npgsql > http://npgsql.projects.postgresql.org/ > > Plus, Npgsql has (copied from the Npgsql web page): > > # Support for .Net 2.0 and 3.5 > # Entity Framework (EF): In order to use it, you have to download a special > build with the 3.5 suffix in its name on our download page. > # Improved performance for large resultsets:Different from Npgsql1, Npgsql2 > doesn't read all table contents before returning control to user code. This > makes Npgsql much more memory efficient when dealing with large tables. > # ASP.Net Providers > > --- On Tue, 11/3/09, Marek Habersack <[email protected]> wrote: > >> From: Marek Habersack <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: [Mono-list] [Mono-aspnet-list] sqlite questions? >> To: "william leader" <[email protected]> >> Cc: "Dale E. Moore" <[email protected]>, [email protected], >> "monodevelop-list" <[email protected]>, >> [email protected] >> Date: Tuesday, November 3, 2009, 3:58 AM >> william leader wrote: > ... >> Much better choice, as >> somebody else suggested, is PostgreSQL - >> its .NET driver (Npgsql) is LGPL, has all the >> features you mentioned (membership, profile, role) >> and is shipped with Mono. > ... > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mono-list maillist - [email protected] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list > -- Regards, Francisco Figueiredo Jr. Npgsql Lead Developer http://www.npgsql.org http://fxjr.blogspot.com http://twitter.com/franciscojunior _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
