ODBC component licenses

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2011-11-10 22:49, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Nov 2011 16:06:56 -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu
> <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:
>
>> On 11/10/11 1:50 PM, Dejan Lekic wrote:
>>> On 10/11/11 05:55, Steve Teale 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?
>>>>
>>>> Steve
>>>
>>> I would strongly advice any DB driver go into a separate library instead
>>> of Phobos. Too many unneeded modules are in Phobos already and more
>>> modules that do not belong in Phobos are about to be accepted...
>>
>> I thought the main concern was that there's too little stuff in
>> Phobos, and that growth is good. Seems like whatever we do we won't
>> please everyone.
>
> Well, one concern I would have is making *phobos* dependent on these
> libraries, which may not be needed (or installed).
>
> Note that in recent times, dmd failed to compile any programs Ubuntu
> because of new linking rules. The solution was to add -lrt to the dmd
> source code that generates the link line.
>
> Is that the same solution for FreeTDS? What if FreeTDS isn't installed
> (it typically is not)? What if you don't use the database system, why
> should you have to link against FreeTDS if it's not being used?
>
> I'd much rather have the database subsystem *framework* be a part of
> phobos, and the actual implementations be defined as 3rd party libs.
> Just from a practical point of view.
>
> -Steve

With Tango you need to explicitly link to the third party libraries it 
uses, like libz and libssl.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg