Proposal: Encouraging DB-using applications

[Martin Konold]

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.

Regards,
-- martin

Dipl.-Phys. Martin Konold
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