Christopher Petrilli <petrilli@digicool.com> wrote:

On 11/9/99 7:45 PM, Anthony Baxter at anthony@interlink.com.au wrote:

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I'm not sure that this is true - there are a number of ODBC drivers on Unix, some are open source, and mxODBC interfaces them to Python. ODBC drivers for databases are available in some cases.

People have asked why we don't use mxODBC, a simple reading of the license would explain this. The licenses are incompatible. Alas! We'd love to hae someone else develop this.

Looking at the license from Marc-André's starship site (http://starship.python.net/~lemburg/): ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Redistribution of this software or modifications thereof for commercial use requires a separate license which must be negotiated with the author. As a guideline, packaging the module and documentation with other free software will be possible without fee or royalty as described above. This license does not allow you to ship this software as part of a product that you sell. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If Zope doesn't qualify as "free software" here (I don't know if he means only GPL, or if Zope's "OpenSource" designation is enough), why not ask about licensing the code compatibly for use with Zope (a la Medusa)? Even in the worst case, I believe Zope could bundle a DA for mxODBC, and require that the user install mxODBC separately. ================================================================================ Tres Seaver tseaver@palladion.com http://www.palladion.com Palladion Software Houston, Texas, USA 713-523-6582