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Re: [unixODBC-DEV] - Re: [HACKERS] info on unixODBC/Postgres driver port to IRIX 6.5.7 64bit

Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org>

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From: Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org>
To: Peter Harvey <pharvey@codebydesign.com>
Cc: unixodbc-dev@unixodbc.org, Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>, Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>, Murad Nayal <murad@godel.bioc.columbia.edu>, bugs@postgresql.org, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, pgsql-ports@postgresql.org
Date: 2000-06-15T16:27:30Z
Lists: pgsql-bugs, pgsql-hackers 
Peter Harvey wrote:
> 
> The PostgreSQL driver, in unixODBC, is a direct descendent of Byrons
> driver. I took the driver,  made it compile on UNIX again, then added a few
> fixs to make it work in unixODBC and with StarOffice 5.0. I think other
> enhancements were made to it since then (about a year ago).
> 
> The intention was to merge the changes back into Byrons stuff but that has not
> happened (that I am aware of).

Is the unixODBC driver GPL?  If so, that's why it hasn't been pulled
back into the BSD-licensed PostgreSQL distribution.

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Lamar Owen
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