I have been putting a lot of work into debugging the perl client, even before the full sources were published and I was later responsible for making using SAP DB from Perl stable via the ODBC interface.
Eventhough there is no (or very little) actual code remaining in the SAP DB that I wrote I still feel that I have contributed to the value of SAP DB by advocating its use and making it possible to use it in production from Perl.
I made these contributions so that I could use SAP DB as the backend of my non-Free application, so the news that the license of the client liberary is going to be changed from LGPL to GPL as part of the mysql deal is very bad news to me and a lot of the other SAP DB users.
Changing the license from LGPL to GPL is entirely legal, but it still feels very unfair to remove our freedom to use the product we feel helped create, even if the majority of our contributions were in the form of support, advocacy, testing, bugreporting and code in third party software.
What I (and as far as I can tell a lot of the current users) ask is that the client liberaries can continue to be licensed under the LGPL and not change to be GPL licensed.
-- Regards Flemming Frandsen - http://dion.swamp.dk PartyTicket.Net co founder & Yet Another Perl Hacker
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