#Perl DBD::Firebird driver : Fork in progress for DBD::InterBase driver
Posted by mariuz on 26 Aug 2010 11:14 am. Filed under Developer News , Worth Reading.
Seems there are a lot of bugs and patches accumulating in the DBD::InterBase driver and the community already forked the code on github with many patches and fixes applied to the main code
I will create a renamed driver with the name DBD::Firebird in cpan from the above fork and i will apply all the patches and fix the bugs that were not fixed
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On August 30th, 2010 at 4:30 am
Kudos to the brave people daring to go in the deep forest!
I wonder if there is any chance of dropping the restriction of distribution that makes the software not suitable for Debian:
it cannot be placed on a CD-ROM or similar media
for commercial distribution without the prior
approval of the author.
(InterBase.pm)
mariuz Reply:
August 30th, 2010 at 6:23 am
I think is a mistake
licence copy pasted from other dbd modules and for example in oracle is fixed
http://www.mail-archive.com/dbd-oracle-changes@perl.org/msg00763.html
Also the Main README is under Perl artistic license and gpl and the cdrom portion is deleted
I will try to contact the authors but i’m positive it can be changed
dam Reply:
September 16th, 2010 at 10:13 am
The main README really doesn’t mention any additional restrictions, but every source file does. And there are two copyright holders that need to agree to remove them. *sigh*
I wonder if it would be easier to start a new driver using IBPP…
On August 30th, 2010 at 10:41 am
That would be great! I tried to contact the original author some years ago but never got a reply.