Re: [Savannah-hackers] submission of nrdo (NetReach Database Objects) - savannah.nongnu.org

[Jaime E . Villate]

Hi,
Your project has been approved but before you upload your code in Savannah,
you will have to implement Postgresql or Mysql support.

The idea is that at no point should free-only users be at disadvantage
compared to users of proprietary software. Your project should always work
equally well in free systems as in any other versions you provide; namely,
since your program provides support for Oracle databases, the modules that
provide that support should not be released in Savannah unless you also
release a module for a free dbms, with the same or more functionalities.

Regarding the license, you are right, the license of your project should be
the more restrictive from the two licenses used, which in this case is the
GPL. You included a Java class in src/gnu, written by Per Bothner, which has
no license information; please make sure it is GPL compatible and include
license information for it, or remove it from your source distribution.

Regards,
Jaime


On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 12:16:16PM -0500, address@hidden wrote:
> 
> A package was submitted to savannah.nongnu.org
> This mail was sent to address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> 
> Stuart Ballard <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
> License: gpl
> Other License: (I hope this box will still be submitted even though I didn\'t 
> select \"other\")
> 
> nrdo includes a compile-time build tool and runtime libraries. The build tool 
> is under the GPL, but the runtime libraries are under the LGPL. Since the 
> LGPL permits redistribution under the GPL as well, I think it\'s accurate to 
> say that the project \"as a whole\" is under the GPL.
> Package: nrdo (NetReach Database Objects)
> System name: nrdo
> Type: non-GNU
> 
> Description:
> nrdo (NetReach Database Objects) is a database programming tool.
> 
> Its primary purpose is to make database programming easier and more 
> convenient. To this end, it performs two separate but related functions:
> 
> 1) It allows database table definitions to be specified in a source code 
> file. This provides a number of advantages: The files can be maintained in 
> source code control, it is easy to upgrade an old installation to the latest 
> version of the database, and it is possible to include more semantic 
> information than the database itself actually knows. nrdo is invoked at 
> compile time: it reads these table definition (.dfn) files, checks the 
> current state of the database, and performs whatever CREATE or ALTER 
> statements are necessary to make the database match the dfn file.
> 
> 2) It generates all the repetitive code that is necessary to access the 
> database from a programming language. Current supported output languages are 
> Java and C#, but the language output is generic and new languages are easy to 
> support. Instead of manually creating a database connection, executing an SQL 
> statement, looping over the results and reading the returned data values 
> manually, nrdo generates a class that represents a data row, for each table. 
> It makes use of the extra semantic information in the dfn file to provide 
> functions or methods to retrieve rows of the database by whatever criteria 
> you specify.
> 
> It already exists and you can download the latest distribution at 
> http://rainbow.netreach.net/~sballard/nrdo.tar.gz . However, as discussed in 
> private email with the Savannah hackers, the current release is not fully 
> functional on a Free system; the plan is to address this as soon as possible.
> 
> 
> Other Software Required:
> nrdo is written in Java; it should work on any of the major Free Java 
> implementations but has not been well tested on any of them yet.
> 
> nrdo uses the jdbcpool Java connection pooling implementation available from 
> http://www.bitmechanic.com/projects/jdbcpool/
> 
> To use the C# output bindings you will need a C#/CLR implementation such as 
> Mono or Portable.NET.
> 
> nrdo also requires a database to be useful; PostgreSQL and MySQL will be 
> supported but are not yet.
> 
> Other Comments:
> nrdo was developed for and is supported by NetReach, Inc 
> (http://www.netreach.com/).