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Re: why postgres?
by AC on Wednesday 23/Feb/2005, @13:50
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MPL isn't GPL compatible; there's not even a reason to look further. We're going to have to use the client libraries for these databases.
I don't see any reason not to use Postgres; there are loads of ways that all of this could be done, but the datastore is the boring part and Postgres fits our requirements. I don't really see a reason to look further at the moment. |
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Re: why postgres?
by Scott Wheeler on Wednesday 23/Feb/2005, @13:53
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Err, that was me. Konqueror is having fun with my cookies.
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Re: why postgres?
by Marco Menardi on Wednesday 23/Feb/2005, @15:01
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I've never heard of problems with FirebirdSQL and GPL, since you have to connect with the database, not include his code. Maybe their "modified" MPL is modified enought to be able to interface with GPL programs ;) But I'm not a lawyer.
I was replying to your message about PostgresSQL vs MySQL, and I'm sure you will be surprised on Firebird performances, low footprint, high stability, low manteniance needs, etc..
So mine was just a suggestion, since if you "don't see any reason not to use Postgres", I don't see any reason to use Postgres instead of Firebird ;)
So would be great if you could have a look also at Firebird :)
thanks
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Re: why postgres?
by Ian Monroe on Thursday 24/Feb/2005, @00:11
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Well, I'd assume the client libraries for FirebirdSQL are in MPL as well. You do have to link againist those.
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Re: why postgres?
by Marco Menardi on Thursday 24/Feb/2005, @01:00
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Well, I use Firebird and, at the moment, my program is in Delphi under Windows, so I'm not an expert and I don't know what "client libraries" you need.
I know, for instance, that JCA/JDBC Driver:
http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php?op=devel&sub=jdbc
is distributed free of charge under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL).
I don't know about ODBC/JDBC Driver
http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php?op=devel&sub=odbc
or ADO.NET Data Provider
http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php?op=devel&sub=netprovider
but probably the license is included in the package you can download.
In any case, if you visit the main site I suggest you http://www.firebirdsql.org/ probably you can understand more and better.
Thanks again
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Re: why postgres?
by brockers on Thursday 14/Apr/2005, @16:39
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So KDE is going to choose a database that is LGPL because of licensing restrictions from using a straight GPL'ed database when we use a GPL'ed toolkit to do EVERYTHING related to Qt? I hope this is not really the case because it would seem to lend credibility to the Gnome-huggers who say that KDE is worthless as a general purpose business desktop because QT is GPL'ed and not LGPL'ed. If we can use QT in KDE why not MySQL? Don't get me wrong, I don't have a problem with Postgres, I just hate to see KDE use the same argument against something that has been leveled against us.
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