illegal creativity?
viktoras d.
viktoras at ekoinf.net
Fri Mar 20 06:18:03 EDT 2009
Thanks a lot Richard, Mark, Lynn, Randall, Peter, Luis for help!
This is a tool for quite specific environmental data analysis and
mapping. It reads data from nearly any RDBMS sufficiently supported by
Revolution or ODBC - end user does not feel any difference - his only
care is to choose his preferred database file or server.
Scientists usually have access and share data stored in different
databases or file formats and every person may have different
preferences. Some prefer PostgreSQL over MySQL, others like MySQL more,
some use MS Access or Oracle, for yet others Sqlite satisfies all their
needs. So I intended to enable them to copy databases directly from,
say, Access to MySQL, or, maybe, SQLite to Valentina and vice versa if
they wish to do so, with just a couple of mouse clicks. Then I
remembered some time ago having read this strangely restrictive license
term in EULA of one database vendor (I still have to remember which
one..) and this raised some doubts on possible consequences of this
feature.
At this moment I think I would better not risk and will activate the
feature for open source databases only and databases that I am 100% sure
do not restrict data export/import to other competing RDBMS in their EULAs.
By the way (well, this question should start another thread) does anyone
know if there exists a Revolution library to access Firebird RDBMS?
Thanks again and all the best!
Viktoras
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