ODBC component licenses

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Fri, 11 Nov 2011 13:41:45 -0500, Steve Teale  
<steve.teale at britseyeview.com> wrote:

>> The subject of this discussion (FreeTDS) apparently only comes in static
>> library form (unless we want to build and support dynamic libraries of
>> it).
>>
>> -Steve
>
> Well, the one I downloaded a couple of days ago is a .so, and I'm not
> linking to that anyway, but to libodbc.so (part of unixODBC). The FreeTDS
> lib must be dynamically loaded by unixODBC, so given that the two are
> like hand in glove, it's difficult to see how they would change it to
> a .a.

If it's a .so, and you are using a wrapper library, I think it should be  
fine license-wise.  But there is still the issue of making phobos  
dependent on a not-so-common lib (not everyone has unixODBC installed on  
their system).

-Steve