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Re: [stellation-res] Some database questions, with major performance impact
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On Sunday 11 August 2002 06:40 pm, Dave Shields wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 11, 2002 at 12:17:58PM +0000, Mark C. Chu-Carroll wrote:
> > (1) Inprise/Firebird (or whatever they're calling it these days). This is
> > the system that Borland open-sourced. I've heard very little about this,
> > so I'd like to hear ay experiences that anyone has had with it. It looks
> > to have really good cross-platform support, and they seem very serious
> > about solid JDBC support, but it's currently only
> > beta.
>
> I just used Google to locate Firebird, and their site mentions they
> use the InterBase Public License v1.0, which is the same license under
> which Inprise released their code.. Unfortunately, I don't find this
> license in the list of OSI approved licenses available at
> http://www.opensource.org.
Well, that would seem to take it out of the running. In general, if OSI
refused to approve a license, there's some obnoxious "gotcha" hidden
in it.
SAPDB is dual-licensed GPL/LGPL, and the LGPL'ed JDBC is
OK for us. MySQL/InnoDB is GPL, with the JDBC library (MM.MySQL)
under LGPL.
-Mark
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