Re: Newbie again. Oracle. DLL calls

["Peter C. Norton" <spacey at lenin dot nu>]

Yes.  Just as an application that talks to oracle can be put under a
proprietary copyright/license it can be put under the GPL.  Witness the
interfaces present in python, php and perl (but don't try to learn anything
from the perl module).  The php module is well written and is a good read.

-Peter

On Wed, May 10, 2000 at 02:05:54PM +0200, Klaus Schilling wrote:
> Peter C. Norton writes:
>  > It's possible to do what you want.  I started work on this, and got
>  > sidetracked.  I want to try to do it with swig once guile support is
>  > relatively stable again.  The size of OCI makes it daunting, and I think
>  > that it'd require too many smob's to just full export oci's full interface
>  > into guile - some wrapping and packaging will have to be done.
> 
> May a guile interface to oracle be put under the GNU GPL, even though
> Oracle is downright proprietary?
> 
> Klaus Schilling

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