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Re: [Savannah-hackers] submission of nrdo (NetReach Database Objects) -
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Stuart Ballard |
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Re: [Savannah-hackers] submission of nrdo (NetReach Database Objects) - savannah.nongnu.org |
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Mon, 06 Jan 2003 15:03:36 -0500 |
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Jaime E . Villate wrote:
Hi,
Your project has been approved but before you upload your code in Savannah,
you will have to implement Postgresql or Mysql support.
Fair enough.
The idea is that at no point should free-only users be at disadvantage
compared to users of proprietary software. Your project should always work
equally well in free systems as in any other versions you provide; namely,
since your program provides support for Oracle databases, the modules that
provide that support should not be released in Savannah unless you also
release a module for a free dbms, with the same or more functionalities.
Understood.
Regarding the license, you are right, the license of your project should be
the more restrictive from the two licenses used, which in this case is the
GPL. You included a Java class in src/gnu, written by Per Bothner, which has
no license information; please make sure it is GPL compatible and include
license information for it, or remove it from your source distribution.
The license is GPL with an exception (no restrictions if the code is
unchanged). Since that code is used by LGPL-licensed parts of nrdo, I
can't change the code to include a license statement without propagating
GPL-ness throughout the code that uses it. I believe I included an
external statement of the license. Is that enough?
Btw, I've created a mailing list and tried to subscribe to it. It's been
a few hours and I haven't yet received any subscription-confirmation
email. Is there any kind of known issue causing subscription notices to
be slow in arriving if you try too soon after the list is created?
Thanks again,
Stuart.
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