Re: dbus and GNOME 2.8

[jamie <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

On Tue, 2004-04-06 at 21:01, Sean Middleditch wrote:
> One quick note, before I bother carrying this discussion any further -
> Firebird is under the IPL which is identical to the MPL which is not GPL
> compatible; it cannot be linked to most GNOME applications.  This is why
> Mozilla is dual (or triple now) licensed under MPL/GPL/LGPL.  Any
> argument regarding how great you think Firebird is are pointless, since
> it can't be used in any part of the GNOME release.

maybe I need to check that but the Gnome-Db provider for Firebird is
LGPL so should that matter?

Also it doesn't change any of the arguements cause you can substitute
postgres for Firebird - the principles are the same.


jamie.