Re: change to interfaces.html

From: Dave Page <dpage(at)postgresql(dot)org>
To: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: change to interfaces.html
Date: 2007-11-16 15:57:57
Message-ID: 473DBE05.2030609@postgresql.org
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Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> Dave Page wrote:
>> Marc G. Fournier wrote:
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>> We do - we prefer the community code over the one produced and
>> maintained by a single company, and released under a licence that is
>> potentially very restrictive (depending on the interpretation which
>> has yet to be tested in court afaik).
>
> Uhmmm o.k. now I am ticked. Dave you are full of it on this one. The
> license chosen is one the most trusted Open Source licenses in existed.
> It is the GPL for god sake.

Yes, which is a constant cause of debate when used with a driver, for
example:

- The discussions that have cropped up yet again a week or two back on
the ODBC mailing list.

- The general Open Source community's annoyance at MySQL GPL'ing their
drivers precisely because they want people to pay for the non-GPL licence.

> And although we are the primary developers of ODBCng we do accept
> patches, the source can be downloaded via Anonymous SVN.

I didn't say you didn't.

> There is no different between ODBC and ODBCng except your ridiculous and
> ignorant attitude.

You are expecting the PostgreSQL Community to not favour it's own driver
on it's own website over one maintained by a third party company? Thats
not at all ridiculous.

I can just imagine what you would say if I tried to push an EDB product
over an community one *on the community website*.

> The real difference between ODBCng and ODBC is that ODBCng is
> continually tested, continually developed, and continually improved. Or
> is that the part that bothers you?
>

Not at all. Hiroshi Saito and Hiroshi Inoue have been doing an excellent
job on psqlODBC over the last year or more.

/D

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