Re: Some free utilities for Java, with Hebrew support.
bbound@gmail.com wrote:
On Oct 14, 8:13 pm, Arne VajhHj <a...@vajhoej.dk> wrote:
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.
That's odd. Before you said nobody wants ANY license that has ANY
restriction at all. That seems to me to leave pretty much only the
public domain.
No.
GPL is a potential problem.
Apache/BSD and usually also LGPL is not a problem.
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.
It probably does supply a PostgreSQL JDBC driver however.
An ISV who is unsatisfied with MySQL for any reason, including
licensing, can simply build their software on Postgre instead. Same as
if I don't much care for Swing for some reason, I can build my
software on SWT instead.
True.
And that is what is happening.
Some potential customers does not use MySQL because of the
licensing issues.
Arne
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