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Re: (FC-Devel) RE: DBs vs CVS



> > --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > -- ------------------------------------------------ Last version (6.4) is
> > the first one working with Win NT but not all features are available. I
> > think that the best solution is to switch to Linux.
> 
> Hmm, although I would agree that it is the best solution, it is 
> unfortunately not possible. None of the machines I can use at the 
> moment are mine to change. Also I think that we should stick to 
> the goal of supporting Win32. It would widen the tools potential 
> user base & usefullness a lot, and it really shouldn't be that 
> difficult. If they can port Apache to NT then we should be able to 
> design a CASE tool from the ground up that supports it :)

Enough of Postgres runs with NT now that we can use it for Freecase.

> > PostgreSQL Data Base Management System (formerly known as Postgres, then
> > as Postgres95).
> > 
> > Copyright (c) 1994-7 Regents of the University of California
> > 
> 
> <snip>
> 
> Can someone that understands licenses tell us whether it would be 
> legal to link a copy of a GPLed program with it then? IA *certainly* 
> NAL :)

From my understanding and experience, yes.  There are also several other GPLed 
projects that use Postgres as a store.

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