Re: [DB] is there a free Oracle API [was Re: what about Database?]

[Alex Lau <alex@dentonlive.com>]

Colin Watson :

> On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 11:14:21PM +0200, Florian Weps wrote:
>  
>
> > On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 11:06:20AM +0100, Daniel Silverstone wrote:
> >    
> >
> > > dbishell's support for Oracle is entirely a case of "If you have it
> > > installed, then dbishell supports it" -- you'll notice that it doesn't
> > > depend on oracle in any way to work normally, it just happens to know about
> > > oracle from the sense of its internal online help and completion driver
> > > information.
> > >
> > > If this still violates policy then I will, of course, split the oracle bits
> > > off into contrib -- but that seems pretty pointless since dbishell works
> > > fine without oracle.
> > >      
> > Depends on what license the oracle bits come with, I guess.
> >    
>
> Packages only need to go into contrib if they *depend* on non-free
> software. Merely happening to have support for non-free software if it's
> available (loading plugins on demand, for instance) isn't a problem, and
> as I understand it dbishell is an example of the latter.
>  
Ah... That will be great, so if my software link to open & close 
database , as
long as my software is open, it will be able to go into offical? 
(contrib or main or non-free)
Just wondering, because the case of netbeans didn't get in. (because of the
vm? )

Alex




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