[OT] open-source license issues

[spir]

On 04/12/2011 11:55 AM, Daniel Gibson wrote:
> Am 12.04.2011 11:34, schrieb spir:
>> On 04/12/2011 04:06 AM, Daniel Gibson wrote:
>>> Well I'd always use PostgreSQL instead of MySQL when having the
>>> choice, but
>>> 1. often MySQL needs to be used because it's already there
>>> 2. PostgreSQL uses the BSD-License which also isn't suitable for Phobos.
>>>
>>> BTW: I think PHP has a native SQL driver (under their BSD-style PHP
>>> license) - maybe that could be adapted to be used with D, if it's
>>> written in C. This still couldn't be shipped with Phobos, but at least
>>> there are no stupid restrictions on using it for commercial software.
>>
>> I don't understand this story of shipping, neither. It seems to me D's
>> style rather pushes to reuse libs (esp written in C), that users (both
>> programmer&  end-user) are forced to install anyway. Licenses that allow
>> reuse (and shipping) provided a copyright note is properly inserted do
>> not change anything for me.
>>
>> Instead, I find this copyright note, not only *extremely* light, but
>> also fair, and even nice. In my views, people who do not agree with that
>> are the kinds who want to freely take from a community and give nothing
>> back in exchange (rather corporations in fact); not even attribute their
>> work to authors. Bad and sad :-(
>>
>> Denis
>
> Yeah this is all fine when you use a third-party lib, but IMHO for a
> standard-lib of a language such a copyright-note shouldn't be necessary.
> It's not like you have to know that phobos uses zlib, for example.
> Sure it's nice if you add to your README "I used the D programming
> language and it's standardlib Phobos, which includes the zlib I used for
> compression and SQLite for simple database stuff to create this", but it
> shouldn't be necessary.

Right, I now understand the point. But still find it an extremely light 
constraint: just put an "attributions.txt" into your package. Compare this 
constraint eg with makefile issues ;-)

Denis
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