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Giampaolo Gallo <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
License: gpl
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Package: Database request broker
System name: dbrb
This package wants to apply for inclusion in the GNU project

Description:
This software, called dbrb, implements a client-server database independent 
interface. Its architecture is based on a server program that interfaces to one 
or more RDBMS and clients that interact with the server using a simple 
protocol. The application program (in C, Perl, Php, Java etc.) does not talk 
directly to the RDBMS but forwards queries to the dbrb server which in turn 
forwards them to the database engine.

Supported free databases:

- mysql         http://www.mysql.com
- postgresql    http://www.postgresql.org

Although this project is released under the GNU GPL it providessupport for some 
non-free databases:
- informix    
- IBM-db2
- oracle
- msql-2

All these database are not all equally supported. The documentationis not yet 
up to date.RDBMS are supported through modules that can be omitted without 
compromising the software functionality. 

The project already exists and is available for download at

http://www.iws.it/dbrb/dbrb-0.4.2.tar.bz2
 
The modules for the proprietary databases are available separately
at 

http://www.iws.it/dbrb/dbrb-0.4.2-modules.tar.bz2

if their distribution will be found compatible with the GPL or the 
LGPL.

Other Software Required:
gcc, openssl

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