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Supporting non-free SQL clients in ob-sql (was: [PATCH] ob-sql: Add supp


From: Ihor Radchenko
Subject: Supporting non-free SQL clients in ob-sql (was: [PATCH] ob-sql: Add support for Athena)
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2023 10:06:31 +0000

Daniel Kraus <daniel@kraus.my> writes:

> Tim Cross <theophilusx@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I think you run a high risk of running into GNU policy issues wrt
>> licensing and free software support given this is a cleint for an AWS
>> only database.
>
> Is it because it's cloud only or because it's proprietary?

Both. For cloud, see
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-serve.html
(we can have cloud service support, but only those that are not unjust)

> Because we already support Orcale, SAP Hana, MSSql and Vertico for example.

We probably should not.
Ideally, we need universal SQL cli support and then move all non-free
clients to external packages.

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