FreeTDS Development Group

["Brian Bruns" <camber AT ais.org>]

> tsql.c currently contains an LGPL license.  But it links with readline (if
> installed), which I believe is enough to infect it with the full GPL.
> Should the license on this file be updated?
> 
> Cheers,
> --nick

Technically you have LGPL tsql source + GPL readline = GPL tsql executable
So, we don't necessarily have to change the license of the tsql source,
just accept that the binary is under the provision of the GPL, IANAL.

That said, it was my intention for tsql to be GPL and I munged it.  How
many significant contributors do we have?  Not more than one or two beyond
myself I'm sure, do we have buy-in to do the license change?

BTW, I just checked in some changes to tsql (life is slowly returning to
normal, or maybe I'm adjusting to the sleepless nights).

tsql now accepts sqsh-style arguments to "go", currently there are -h and
-f which turn off headers/footers like sqsh (well technically just
headers, we haven't added footers yet anyway). -v which replaces the "GO"
command (sorry to whomever added that, but it's horribly ugly and gots to
go) and -t which does a timer on row processing from immediately after the
results are processes (that is, we send the query, wait for the server to
start returning results, and then turn on the clock), a useful little
addition for tracking them/us type performance problems.

Cheers,

Brian