Re: [Savannah-hackers] submission of nrdo (NetReach Database Objects) - savannah.nongnu.org

[Stuart Ballard]

Jaime E . Villate wrote:
> Hi,
> Your project has been approved but before you upload your code in Savannah,
> you will have to implement Postgresql or Mysql support.

Fair enough.

> The idea is that at no point should free-only users be at disadvantage
> compared to users of proprietary software. Your project should always work
> equally well in free systems as in any other versions you provide; namely,
> since your program provides support for Oracle databases, the modules that
> provide that support should not be released in Savannah unless you also
> release a module for a free dbms, with the same or more functionalities.

Understood.

> Regarding the license, you are right, the license of your project should be
> the more restrictive from the two licenses used, which in this case is the
> GPL. You included a Java class in src/gnu, written by Per Bothner, which has
> no license information; please make sure it is GPL compatible and include
> license information for it, or remove it from your source distribution.

The license is GPL with an exception (no restrictions if the code is 
unchanged). Since that code is used by LGPL-licensed parts of nrdo, I 
can't change the code to include a license statement without propagating 
GPL-ness throughout the code that uses it. I believe I included an 
external statement of the license. Is that enough?

Btw, I've created a mailing list and tried to subscribe to it. It's been 
a few hours and I haven't yet received any subscription-confirmation 
email. Is there any kind of known issue causing subscription notices to 
be slow in arriving if you try too soon after the list is created?

Thanks again,
Stuart.

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