Bug 975314
Summary: | Review Request: libodb-mssql - Microsoft SQL Server ODB runtime library | ||
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Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Dave Johansen <davejohansen> |
Component: | Package Review | Assignee: | Nobody's working on this, feel free to take it <nobody> |
Status: | CLOSED CANTFIX | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | unspecified | ||
Version: | rawhide | CC: | besser82, boris, lemenkov, notting, package-review, tcallawa |
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Target Release: | --- | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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Last Closed: | 2013-06-18 14:36:09 UTC | Type: | --- |
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oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Bug Depends On: | 975312 | ||
Bug Blocks: | 182235 |
Description
Dave Johansen
2013-06-18 05:05:43 UTC
I'm not sure if this particualar plugin can be shipped with Fedora. According to [1]: | ODB is available with full source code and can be | used with open source databases (SQLite, PostgreSQL, | MySQL, etc.) as well as FREE EDITIONS of commercial databases | (Oracle Express, SQL Server Express, etc.) under the terms of | the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2. | | ODB can also be used free of charge NON-COMMERCIALLY or for | EVALUATION with non-free editions of commercial databases (Oracle, | SQL Server, etc) under the terms of the | ODB Non-Commercial Use and Evaluation License (NCUEL). Reading this sounds like all odb-plugins are GPL'ed, but NOT MS SQL / ORACLE plugins, if used with the enterprise / commercial editions of the corresponding database. For this reason I set this to be blocked by FE-LEGAL. [1] http://www.codesynthesis.com/products/odb/license.xhtml Yes, libodb-mssql is not free software and therefore probably shouldn't be included in Fedore. Plus the Microsoft Native Client, which is what libodb-mssql is based on, is not free software either. Yeah, I agree. The NCUEL is non-free, and this code is under NCUEL, not GPL, because of the target DB. Sorry. :/ Unblocking FE-NEEDSPONSOR - I've just sponsored Dave. Sorry I didn't notice the different license and didn't even check the LICENSE file to be honest. I just assumed that since it would build against unixODBC that it was GPLv2 like the others. I'm fine with closing it. |