On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 12:20 AM, John Goerzen <jgoer...@complete.org>wrote:
> On 07/07/2010 03:22 PM, Don Stewart wrote: > > And you have to be wary about the license of HDBC (LGPL) if you want to >> use the package in software you redistribute (though this is rarely the >> case for database apps, I'm guessing). Satisfying the linking >> requirements with GHC -O2 are non-trivial, even with -dynamic. >> > > I remain ready to have a discussion with anyone that has a problem with > that. I've had one or two people ask me about it in the past, but they > never followed up to my reply mails. I'm not going to be a stick in the mud > about LGPL, but neither do I want to allow others to > commercialize/embrace-and-extend HDBC without giving back to the community. > My intent isn't to get in the way of people using HDBC in their own > software, whether commercial or proprietary, but to prevent > proprietarization of HDBC itself. I suspect LGPL+some exemption could solve > any concerns and would be happy to pursue it. > > > I think a simple statement along the lines of the GNU Classpath linking exception would go very far[1]. I only mention that one since it's quoted verbatim on the Wikipedia site. Michael [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPL_linking_exception#The_classpath_exception
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