RE: Toad vs TOra vs ?

From: Paul Drake <discgolfdba_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 08:56:56 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <20040816155656.52236.qmail@web20428.mail.yahoo.com>

"Jesse, Rich" <Rich.Jesse_at_quadtechworld.com> wrote:

> Yes, there is a glimmer of hope! The wonderful TOAD
> team has released a =
> freeware (at least for now) version of TOAD for
> MySQL. =
> http://www.toadsoft.com Attempts at gleaning
> insight to TOAD for =
> Oracle on Linux have been met with
> politically-correct answers, though. =
> If I had to guess, it's legal difficulty. From the
> output of an "ldd" =
> on the MySQL version, I'd think they'd have to
> release the source code, =
> since it relies on some GNU libs. I'm also guessing
> that Quest's =
> acquisition of TOra had something to do with it.
>
> Keep yer fingees crossed!
>
> Rich

Rich,

That is such a myth that deserves to be destroyed. Linking against a GNU library does not require that one release their source code under the GPL.

Please don't perpetuate free software and open source software licensing myths. Please.

thanks,

Paul

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