So are you saying that if you connect to any GPL database (e.g. gnumed is a GPL database created with Postgresql), you must GPL your code? Even when using something like ODBC as the connection method?

I don't think so. The difference is, that PostgreSQL is BSD and you are connecting from a GPL source versus say MySQL which is GPL and connecting from a BSD source.


The GPL is pervasive in that if your app requires libs that are GPL then
your app must also be GPL. However, since PostgreSQL libs are BSD we don't have that issue.


IANAL but I believe that is the case.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake




Thanks,

John DeSoi, Ph.D.


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