On 23-May-06, at 8:37 AM, Gerhard Killesreiter wrote:
Robert Douglass wrote:
I didn't follow the discussion that occurred around your module and don't know what the issues were, but I personally don't see any problems with commercial associations as long as they are kept in the open. In fact, I think it is healthy for people to be able to make money with free software.
Well, I obviously agree on that point.
MS-SQL support would be a fantastic thing for Drupal to have, as would Oracle and DB2 support. Anybody who would shoot these down has their head in some Gnu's butt.
The project Ajk was talking about was about writing a module as an interface between Drupal and some commercial, third-party stats software, I think the name was netstat or similar.
I told him, I'd rather not have him contribute it since it is only usefull if you actually buy that package. Then it occurred to me a short while later, that probably all ecommerce payment gateways and amazon.com integration modules are of this kind too and it doesn't make much sense to host the one module and not the other. After that I suggested we discuss this, but nobody took me up on the offer )the mail was to the infrastructure list).
Draft in my inbox still, sorry about that. I think the short answer here is quite simple -- as long as the connector module is GPL, it has every right to be in Drupal CVS. If people don't want to use the module, they won't use it. Cheers, -- Boris Mann Vancouver 778-896-2747 San Francisco 415-367-3595 SKYPE borismann http://www.bryght.com