ODBC component licenses

[Jonathan M Davis]

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.

- Jonathan M Davis