Re: [Virtuoso-users] Licensing (Was: Virtuoso Open Source Edition and distributed SPARQL queries)

2007-03-20 Thread Tim Haynes
Emiliano Heyns wrote: [] Yes, agreed. That does mean that application builders must take extra care when including other non-GPL libraries. I've been in discussions where applications that use JDBC, .Net providers and ODBC fall; the "contact surface" of the application is not directly with the li

Re: [Virtuoso-users] Licensing (Was: Virtuoso Open Source Edition and distributed SPARQL queries)

2007-03-20 Thread Emiliano Heyns
On 3/20/07, Tim Haynes wrote: After conferring with Kingsley and others, I'd like to set the record straight on licensing. First, the GPL says nothing about commercial use or otherwise. It is Which doesn't mean that OpenLink can't add clauses of its own. It's your software after all. per

Re: [Virtuoso-users] Licensing (Was: Virtuoso Open Source Edition and distributed SPARQL queries)

2007-03-20 Thread Tim Haynes
Emiliano Heyns wrote: [] I've been thinking about this, and I am still not certain about how to read the licensing. If I were to build that CMS, who would get to use it? Only private persons? Only approved (by whom?) OSS projects? Only OSS Projects that use the GPL exclusively? Would a commerci

Re: [Virtuoso-users] SQL to RDF mapping

2007-03-20 Thread Jukka Villstedt
Thanks for the advice. That will do for now. -Jukka On 3/20/07, imikhailov wrote: Hello Jukka, I'm sorry for temporary inconvenience. RDF mapping will support more column datatypes, the patch is coming soon. In the current version, supported types are integer, varchar, date, datetime, timest