[Savannah-hackers] Re: [Savannah] dbrb want to be a GNU package

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address@hidden <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Submitter: <address@hidden>
> Project Full Name:  Database request broker
> Project System Name:  dbrb
> License:  gpl
> Approval URL: https://savannah.gnu.org/admin/groupedit.php?group_id=2225

> 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.
>
>  -- the Savannah admin
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