ODBC component licenses

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Thu, 10 Nov 2011 13:10:26 -0500, Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg at gmx.com>  
wrote:

> On Thursday, November 10, 2011 05:23 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.
>
> Though the fact that it needs to be in a separate shared object does  
> make it
> problematic to stick in Phobos, since Phobos is just one shared object.  
> So, if
> he's looking to put it _in_ Phobos, then I don't think that we can do  
> that
> with the current setup.

My understanding is that the FreeTDS is its *own* shared object (installed  
separately).  We cannot include LGPL code in phobos.lib.

BTW, phobos is not a shared object (yet).

-Steve