Listing Drivers in the Docs (was: "Re: Postgres.js driver - for Node.js")

Hi,

For this first round, going to truncate a bit of Stephen's thoughts
(sorry Stephen) just to cover where we are at:

On 1/9/20 12:00 PM, Stephen Frost wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> * Jonathan S. Katz (jkatz(at)postgresql(dot)org) wrote:
>> On 1/8/20 7:59 PM, Tom Lane wrote:

>>> However, I'm not
>>> sure that there's anything wrong with having them in the wiki's list
>>> as long as they're appropriately marked as not-OSS.
>>
>> I had an offline suggestion about including a "License" column, which
>> seems like a good idea in general as we also have in the docs. And if we
>> are going to include more drivers in the docs, we'd (read "I'd" for this
>> first pass) have to pull those together anyway.
>
> I agree with having a license column (*cough* I might have also been the
> one to make the offline suggestion, so don't consider this an
> independent advocating of that ;).

I made a pass at the current Drivers list[1] and added in a link to all
of the license files. I would appreciate any verification to ensure I
captured them all correctly.

The added benefit of this URL is that we now have a direct link to the
source code for all of the projects on the page (whereas some were just
the project pages), which will help with checking if a project is
maintained or not :)

(It was also interesting to see which licenses all the drivers used. I
even learned of one I hadn't heard before, guess which one..)

Despite whether or not we should list out non-OSS drivers, I at least
broke them out for the time being. My feeling has not changed: we should
not list them on the wiki.

Anyway, from a quick scan, for the OSS licenses (knowing this is one of
those passionate topics), I don't see anything that I would not feel
comfortable linking to as part of our official documentation in this
batch (well...maybe one, but the spirit of the license is fine by me and
I would not staunchly object).

I think if we're comfortable where this is at, the next step would be to
define criteria for inclusion, which Stephen started in his previous
note. I'll let this bake for a bit and then follow up.

Thanks,

Jonathan

[1] https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/List_of_drivers