Re: I want to use postresql for this app, but...

From: John DeSoi <jd(at)icx(dot)net>
To: pgsql List <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: I want to use postresql for this app, but...
Date: 2004-02-11 13:21:36
Message-ID: 37C09096-5C95-11D8-888F-000A95B03262@icx.net
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Scott,

On Feb 10, 2004, at 2:06 PM, scott.marlowe wrote:

> Now, if you don't mind using the ODBC connector, you're scott free.
> but
> you WILL be bound by the GPL, and the GPL (not MySQL's interpretation,
> just the GPL in general) being applied to connect libs seriously limits
> your ability to distribute code, since you'd have to GPL your own code
> if
> you distributed it outside your own private organization.

So are you saying that if you connect to any GPL database (e.g. gnumed
is a GPL database created with Postgresql), you must GPL your code?
Even when using something like ODBC as the connection method?

Thanks,

John DeSoi, Ph.D.

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