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

[John Reagan]

On Thursday, January 21, 2021 at 10:59:28 AM UTC-5, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 1/21/2021 10:45 AM, Stephen Hoffman wrote: 
> > On 2021-01-20 20:06:09 +0000, Arne Vajh j 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.
> Besides the differences in license terms there seems to be 
> a bit of fashion in open source licenses. 
> 
> The C people more often choose BSD and LGPL. 
> 
> The Java and the Apple people more often chose Apache. 
> 
> The JS, PHP and .NET people more often chose MIT. 
> 
> Arne
FYI, LLVM is Apache 2 with two additional exceptions.

https://llvm.org/docs/DeveloperPolicy.html#new-llvm-project-license-framework