I'm not a lawyer, either. But in my day job, I'm the last guy who reviews things before calling one.<br><br>:-)<br><br>- Ken<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/1/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Thomas Barregren
</b> <<a href="mailto:thomas@webbredaktoren.se">thomas@webbredaktoren.se</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Ken Rickard skrev:<br>> Jeff-<br>><br>> Two questions, mercifully brief, for all:<br>><br>> 1) Should we escalate this to the Drupal Association to pull in some<br>> lawyerly resources?<br>><br>> I presume the answer is "no" here, as I hear killes in my head saying
<br>> "Drupal follows GPL; end of discussion."<br><br>Since <a href="http://Drupal.org">Drupal.org</a> distributes the possible offending modules, it is not<br>enough to just say that "Drupal follows GPL; end of discussion."
<br><br>I think there is three issues worth further consideration:<br><br> 1. Would Drupal benefit from having some sort of FOSS License<br> Exception? Especially considering the problem with libraries under<br> the PHP license.
<br> 2. Is it advisable for <a href="http://Drupal.org">Drupal.org</a> to distribute modules that depends<br> on software under a GPL-incompatible license?<br> 3. Could a Linking Over Controlled Interface Exception, for hooks and
<br> some other unctions (e.g. t() and l()), be a a feasible solution<br> to allow distribution of modules that depends on software under a<br> GPL-incompatible license?<br><br><br>> 2) How does this affect Edison Wong's (and many others') work on
<br>> Oracle / DB2 integration for Drupal core? Can GPL software invoke<br>> data directly from a non-GPL storage system?<br><br>It depends. If the access can be done without knowing the internals of<br>the non-GPLed storage system, for example through SQL, it is not a
<br>problem. But if the access requires a non-GPLed driver, then we have a<br>problem. I haven't followed the work by Wong et al so I can't speak for<br>that particular case.<br><br>Best regards,<br>Thomas<br></blockquote>
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