From kde-core-devel  Mon Sep 22 15:59:37 2003
From: "Roberto Alsina" <ralsina () kde ! org>
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 15:59:37 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: Proposal: Encouraging DB-using applications
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=106424637706309


> Am Monday 22 September 2003 12:11 am schrieb Roberto Alsina:
>
> Hi Roberto,
>
>> > and perhaps the maintainers can be persuaded to change the license for
>> > GPL to
>> > LGPL so that software licensed under non-GPL-compatible licenses may
>> use
>> > it.
>> > that is what the LGPL was designed for =)
>>
>> Probably 50% of the code is mine, consider that changed.
>
> While I personally know of too many occasions where dbms developers claim
> that
> everything should be stored in a relational database (Oracle & Co.) I am
> aware of the benefits of having an embedded _sql_ db in KDE. There are
> many
> cases where I don't want to depend on the always source/binary
> incompatible
> sleepy cat db (berkeley db).
>
> Of course LGPL is a prerequisite before even thinking about including it
> in
> kdelibs.

Only two permissions are still needed. We should have full permission in a
day or two. If not, I will just take the last version that was all mine
and fix it.

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