[Gambas-user] Removal of gb.db.firebird

[Jussi Lahtinen]

If I understand correctly it is ibpp code that has "wrong" license, and
Firebird license doesn't matter.
So I think we should contact them ( http://www.ibpp.org/ ).
Anyone done it yet? Did I understand correctly?

Anyone know if it is possible in this case to have double license?

Jussi



On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 04:49, Kevin Fishburne <
kevinfishburne at ...1887...> wrote:

> On 03/18/2011 10:43 PM, Kevin Fishburne wrote:
>
>> On 03/18/2011 10:30 PM, Benoît Minisini wrote:
>>
>>> On 03/18/2011 10:15 PM, Benoît Minisini wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm sorry that I had to remove the gb.db.firebird component in Gambas
>>>>> 3,
>>>>> because the license of some its source files is not actually compatible
>>>>> with the General Public License.
>>>>>
>>>> Did you voice your concerns about incompatibility to the maintainers? I
>>>> have no personal stake in this; I didn't know what it was until a couple
>>>> of minutes ago, but it seems a shame if their variation on the license
>>>> makes it incompatible. Their license may affect them adversely in the
>>>> future if they don't change it.
>>>>
>>> I don't know who to contact. I was just warned by a FSF guy about that.
>>> So I
>>> am removing it now for the release candidate. But I will add it back if
>>> the
>>> problem is fixed.
>>>
>>
>> I just sent their foundation or whatever the following through their web
>> site:
>>
>>
>> ---------------------------------------------------------
>> removal of Firebird component from GAMBAS 3
>> ---------------------------------------------------------
>> From Kevin Fishburne, email kevinfishburne at ...1887...
>> Ph: 770-853-6271
>>
>> Benoît Minisini just announced on the GAMBAS users mailing list that he
>> will be removing the Firebird component from his programming language due to
>> concerns raised by an unknown (by me) associate of the Free Software
>> Foundation. Said associate stated that the Firebird license is incompatible
>> with the GPL, presumably version 2, but that he may add it later if the
>> issue has been corrected.
>>
>> While I'm not suggesting any particular action be taken, I'd like to make
>> you aware of the incident. I've sent a copy of this email to the mailing
>> list so that Benoît and users of GAMBAS are aware.
>>
>> Please feel free to contact him about this matter in the mailing list
>> gambas at ...52...
>>
>>
> Wow. So much for that. See attached NDR. Maybe I should send them an email
> from AOL or something...
>
>
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