I hope people don't mind my asking about this on the list... as I hinted at
before, I don't really follow the development of PostgreSQL, I was just
interested in the Python driver project that I heard about.
Anyways, as I understand it, the current goal is to use psycopg and get it
changed to LGPL (assuming all the contributors of psycopg agree and confirm
they did not use GPL code from any other location). Is this correct?
When I first heard about the endeavor, I thought the goal was to take one or
several of the non-copyleft projects, which were rather unfocused, and work
with those teams to produce a really good implementation for Python. However,
as I understand it (based on what Greg told me) the license is not really an
issue as long as it is not GPL; instead, the PostgreSQL team would mostly
prefer something that is nearly done, so as to have to do much more work. Is
this a correct assessment?
Based on that, I guess my question is what would it have taken to have picked
one of BSD/MIT projects and working with those people instead? In other words,
what key things affected the decision for psycopg? What areas is it so far
ahead in or that would have just been too much work to fix in the other
implementations?
Anyways, I hope this message doesn't come across as bad form. It's unfortunate
for me that there was not a good enough BSD/MIT project; but I can live without
right? :) Still, I just thought I might ask and find out a little more about
what the team was looking for in a PostgreSQL implementation, and maybe do a
little research myself (to see if anything was missed).
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