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

[Jussi Lahtinen]

Hmmm.... mixed up. There is the text "The content of this file was generated
by the Firebird project".
So they cannot do anything about it. And apparently IBPP license is OK.

Jussi


On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 16:57, Jussi Lahtinen <jussi.lahtinen at ...626...>wrote:

> 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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