Re: change to interfaces.html

From: Dave Page <dpage(at)postgresql(dot)org>
To: "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>
Cc: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: change to interfaces.html
Date: 2007-11-16 17:39:35
Message-ID: 473DD5D7.4020206@postgresql.org
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Marc G. Fournier wrote:
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> - --On Friday, November 16, 2007 15:57:57 +0000 Dave Page <dpage(at)postgresql(dot)org>
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>> - The general Open Source community's annoyance at MySQL GPL'ing their
>> drivers precisely because they want people to pay for the non-GPL licence.
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> Isn't MySQLs Dual-Licensed, for that reason? I don't believe CMDs is
> Dual-Licensed, is it? Does CMD *have* a 'commercial version' of their ODBC
> driver that has more features?

No, and I didn't mean to imply it does. I believe CP are at the other
end of the scale from MySQL - MySQL are taking the restrictive stance,
whilst CP are taking the liberal stance.

It's the fact that the licence allows those different interpretations
that I believe is a serious problem.

/D

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