Re: License Question

Ken Collins <[email protected]> Fri, 27 May 2011 18:54:27 -0400

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.db.tds.freetds
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

> Why don't you dynamically link to it?

We do for normal ruby gem installs. But for Windows, most of them do not know how to build and install software, so we build TinyTDS with FreeTDS & Libiconv as static libs into the Ruby C extension

> because the functionality your gem is presenting to the
> rest of the world, is the functionality provided by freetds and nothing more,

Perhaps, but not from a Ruby perspective.


 - Ken