ODBC component licenses
Steve Teale
steve.teale at britseyeview.com
Thu Nov 10 06:57:48 PST 2011
On Thu, 10 Nov 2011 08:23:47 -0500, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Nov 2011 00:55:01 -0500, Steve Teale
> <steve.teale at britseyeview.com> wrote:
>
>> The libraries for unixODBC and for FreeTDS (communication with SQL
>> Server) are LGPL.
>>
>> Would a D ODBC driver that used these be compatible with Phobos?
>
> glibc, which dmd (and all Linux binaries) rely on is LGPL. So if you
> are saying what I think you are saying, yes. As long as the LGPL code
> is kept in a *separate* shared object, it is perfectly legal to link
> with it without infecting phobos' license.
>
> -Steve
I had wondered about the C library and how we got away with that.
I think that we can find a sql.h and sqlext.h to convert, so it sounds
like we should be good. I was thinking for a moment that we might have to
go protocol level to speak to SQL Server.
Steve
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