[pkg-firebird-general] DBD::InterBase license ?

[Kai Bäsler]

Hello Damyan,

Am 09.06.2006 um 11:20 schrieb Damyan Ivanov:
>
> Kai Bäsler wrote:
>> regarding DBD::InterBase i found a Message from you on debian-legal.
>> It's from 2004-06-15, and you wrote you were trying to contact the
>> author(s) to clarify some license issues. Did you succeed? Any  
>> chance to
>> see libdbd-interbase-perl in etch?
>
> I asked about license clarification/changes on upstream mailing list
> and never got any response. The mailing list seems not very active (to
> put it lightly).

I had a similar experience, i tried to send a Patch to the addresses  
listed in the POD and also never got any response. But they still  
seem to be working on it, the last Update (to Version 0.44) is dated  
'11 Sep 2005'.


> To anwer your question, no, no chance for libdbd-interbase-perl for  
> etch.

Allright, i already feared it would be that way. Is there any chance  
to get it mentioned in the documentation? I could contribute a short  
howto and describe how to use dh-make-perl to make your own .deb from  
the CPAN distribution.


> However, you may want to give IBPerl a try. ...
> I use IBPerl daily for heavy-wieght in-house web application
> so I can assure you it is very stable.

Thanks for the link, i already downloaded the Source and made it work  
work on my Apple Laptop under Mac OS X. Can you point me to an  
address where we can discuss IBPerl further (i don't want to become  
off-topic here by going to deep into IBPerl)?.
I definitely will try it with my application (which runs under  
debian). Although i must say that DBD::InterBase is very stable too.  
And i do like the DBI API.


> Ah, and it would be exceptionally great if you're interested in
> transforming IBPerl into DBD::Firebird or something. License is "same
> as perl" so no problems on the legal side. I could even take the steps
> to put it in the official archive then.

As my time (and skills) permits. I'm neither a C-Guru nor a full-time  
developer. I'm just another ordinary sysadmin / networking guy who  
happend to learn bits of UNIX over the years. ;-)

What needs to be done?

Kai