Hi, For this first round, going to truncate a bit of Stephen's thoughts (sorry Stephen) just to cover where we are at:
On 1/9/20 12:00 PM, Stephen Frost wrote: > Greetings, > > * Jonathan S. Katz (jk...@postgresql.org) wrote: >> On 1/8/20 7:59 PM, Tom Lane wrote: >>> However, I'm not >>> sure that there's anything wrong with having them in the wiki's list >>> as long as they're appropriately marked as not-OSS. >> >> I had an offline suggestion about including a "License" column, which >> seems like a good idea in general as we also have in the docs. And if we >> are going to include more drivers in the docs, we'd (read "I'd" for this >> first pass) have to pull those together anyway. > > I agree with having a license column (*cough* I might have also been the > one to make the offline suggestion, so don't consider this an > independent advocating of that ;). I made a pass at the current Drivers list[1] and added in a link to all of the license files. I would appreciate any verification to ensure I captured them all correctly. The added benefit of this URL is that we now have a direct link to the source code for all of the projects on the page (whereas some were just the project pages), which will help with checking if a project is maintained or not :) (It was also interesting to see which licenses all the drivers used. I even learned of one I hadn't heard before, guess which one..) Despite whether or not we should list out non-OSS drivers, I at least broke them out for the time being. My feeling has not changed: we should not list them on the wiki. Anyway, from a quick scan, for the OSS licenses (knowing this is one of those passionate topics), I don't see anything that I would not feel comfortable linking to as part of our official documentation in this batch (well...maybe one, but the spirit of the license is fine by me and I would not staunchly object). I think if we're comfortable where this is at, the next step would be to define criteria for inclusion, which Stephen started in his previous note. I'll let this bake for a bit and then follow up. Thanks, Jonathan [1] https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/List_of_drivers