On 04/12/2011 11:55 AM, Daniel Gibson wrote:
Am 12.04.2011 11:34, schrieb spir:
On 04/12/2011 04:06 AM, Daniel Gibson wrote:
Well I'd always use PostgreSQL instead of MySQL when having the
choice, but
1. often MySQL needs to be used because it's already there
2. PostgreSQL uses the BSD-License which also isn't suitable for Phobos.
BTW: I think PHP has a native SQL driver (under their BSD-style PHP
license) - maybe that could be adapted to be used with D, if it's
written in C. This still couldn't be shipped with Phobos, but at least
there are no stupid restrictions on using it for commercial software.
I don't understand this story of shipping, neither. It seems to me D's
style rather pushes to reuse libs (esp written in C), that users (both
programmer& end-user) are forced to install anyway. Licenses that allow
reuse (and shipping) provided a copyright note is properly inserted do
not change anything for me.
Instead, I find this copyright note, not only *extremely* light, but
also fair, and even nice. In my views, people who do not agree with that
are the kinds who want to freely take from a community and give nothing
back in exchange (rather corporations in fact); not even attribute their
work to authors. Bad and sad :-(
Denis
Yeah this is all fine when you use a third-party lib, but IMHO for a
standard-lib of a language such a copyright-note shouldn't be necessary.
It's not like you have to know that phobos uses zlib, for example.
Sure it's nice if you add to your README "I used the D programming
language and it's standardlib Phobos, which includes the zlib I used for
compression and SQLite for simple database stuff to create this", but it
shouldn't be necessary.
Right, I now understand the point. But still find it an extremely light
constraint: just put an "attributions.txt" into your package. Compare this
constraint eg with makefile issues ;-)
Denis
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