[Info-vax] a cool database... as replacement for RMS index-sequential files:: Was: VSI working on alternatives to Oracle Classic database:

Stephen Hoffman seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid
Thu Jan 21 10:45:40 EST 2021


On 2021-01-20 20:06:09 +0000, Arne Vajhj said:

> On 1/20/2021 2:53 PM, Jeffrey H. Coffield wrote:
>> My company has developed a JDBC driver for RMS indexed files and a 
>> persistence layer that achieve this and allow effective joins across 
>> both RMS and MySQL tables. We are in the process of packaging both the 
>> driver and persistence layer as open source but are currently uncertain 
>> of the correct license to use.
> 
> I will suggest Apache License.

Apache 2 or BSD/MIT licenses are the most typical choices for source 
code where the copyright holder doesn't wish to restrict source code 
usage. I've used both licenses for releases, though will typically be 
using Apache 2 for newer work.

The various versions of GPL and LGPL and related are so-called copyleft 
licenses, and add requirements around certain actions with the source 
code. I tend not to use GPL, LGPL, or analog, though comply when 
modifying code covered by those.

Related reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_free_and_open-source_software_licences 

https://blog.codinghorror.com/pick-a-license-any-license/
https://haacked.com/archive/2007/04/04/there-are-only-four-software-licenses.aspx/ 



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