ODBC component licenses

[Steven Schveighoffer]

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