Oleg Broytmann wrote:
Hi!
On Thu, 1 Jun 2000, Hannu Krosing wrote:
AFAIK this is the only DA with GPL license. Both Zope and python have much freer licenses making GPL probably a poor choice if you "aims to replace the current ZPygresql DA".
What is the reason behind GPL'ing it ?
Aha, well, the GPL-vs-BSD-vs-MPL-vs...! :)))
As PostgreSQL mailing list member you (like me) saw these debates many times. I don't think we need to continue the flame here :)
True. The problem is that in some perverted fashion it seems to me that if I use a GPL library with something the whole thing should go GPL, i.e. my use of ZPoPyDA could make me obliged to distribute Zope under GPL, which I of course can't do and thus i start feeling scizophrenic ;)
There are people who loke BSD-style licensing, and there are GPL devotee. In this far-from-ideal world it is hard to say what is more free. I, personnaly, love GPL and publish whatever I can under GPL.
I personally don't have anything against (L)GPL either, its just my gut feeling that having _multiple_ potentially clashing licenses inside what should be ideally one package is confusing as the interactions of licenses can't be understood by noone ;) -------------- Hannu