Re: Some free utilities for Java, with Hebrew support.
bbound@gmail.com wrote:
On Oct 9, 10:22 pm, Arne VajhHj <a...@vajhoej.dk> wrote:
But commercial ISV's does not consider it free.
Commercial ISVs might not see a lot of other things as free either by
your argument. You seem to be making the argument that it's only free
if it's public domain. That's a rather extreme position to be taking.
No.
BSD/Apache style licenses are very fine.
This seems odd. Why are the makers of this specialized software not
either using their own, or using a completely open standard to connect
to the next layer down that is totally vendor-independent, such that
they can pick and choose what implementations to use to be compatible
with their intended licensing?
Because the free alternative does not exist.
PostgreSQL is freer (apparently); they could use it as their
underlying database engine without having to open source their
product. Apparently a lot of these ISVs *are*.
PostgreSQL does not supply a MySQL JDBC driver, which is what
we are discussing.
They do provide an alternative database, but noone is arguing that.
Arne
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