Thanks John,
The simple answer is that I need to be able to use HDBC in proprietary products and the LGPL makes this awkward - the most serious issue being that owners of the code base don't want GNU licensed parts being linked into their code base. Packaging and delivery also gets complicated - (as I understand it) LGPL components can't be delivered pre-linked, necessitating dynamic linking of the relevant libraries or supplying a GHC kit which the customer must use to assemble the product. This is all a significant drag. Also, wouldn't it be good to get HDBC into the Haskell Platform? - but we can't do this while it is LGPL can we? On the other side, what are the risks with adopting a BSD license? Is it that somebody could fork the library into a proprietary Haskell DB library that would compete with HDBC? Chris From: John Goerzen [mailto:jgoer...@complete.org] Sent: 22 February 2011 19:55 To: Chris Dornan Cc: Haskell Cafe; Gershom Bazerman Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] HDBC's future and request for help On 02/22/2011 01:33 PM, Chris Dornan wrote: > Hi John, > > Two thoughts: is there any prospect of making HDBC available under a > BSD-like license? The LGPL license is a significant barrier for me and I > expect it will be for others. I'm happy to discuss this with people. It would be helpful to understand concrete cases where this would be a problem. I have permitted other code to be relicensed under BSD in the past and so don't have a huge hangup about this. If it's the best thing for the community, I'd be likely to do it. On the other hand, I have seen numerous cases over the years where BSD code has been taken by some company and essentially forked into a proprietary version. I feel this is not in the long-term interests of the community, and that drawback has to be weighed against any advantage. > And, along the lines of your own comments, the ODBC interface raises a > significant (technical) barrier for MySQL users. Is there any chance > that we can encourage/help getting the the MySQL driver closer to > production quality? The short answer is probably to send patches to its author or fork it. Or fund someone else to do so. -- John _____ No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 10.0.1204 / Virus Database: 1435/3457 - Release Date: 02/21/11
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