On 30 Oct 2012, at 18:02, Uri Guttman <u...@stemsystems.com> wrote: > On 10/30/2012 01:35 PM, DAVID HODGKINSON wrote: >> Chris, >> >> Can you define "proprietary" please? >> >> It will be shipped with .so files? >> >> The source will be there but the license says we can't change it? > > it seems pretty obvious to me. the sybase people have written a new driver > which is being released in binary only form (hence proprietary)
Talking with Chris last night, that may not be the case. > and also they have written a DBD for it which they will (or have) put on > cpan. as usual the DBD will be open source and free. i would expect the > binary lib to downloadable but useless without a sybase server which is > commercial. There's a free, limited version available. I've used it to develop against in the past. > the confusion is from not clearly describing the binary lib vs the perl/cpan > DBD module as separate entities. This is true.
