Re: [Sapforge-general] About sapforge

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> Fine, but what about the backend? As SAP is going to stop support for 
> 7.3x and 7.4x versions of SapDB after first quarter of the next year, 
> would sapforge libraries support MaxDB, which is no more free? What is 
> the use of LGPL interfaces when backend has become commercial? If one 
> buys commercial backend, he gets the interfaces also with backend (I 
> think so). Please correct me if I am wrong.

SAPDB 7.3 and 7.4 already were GPLed, only the client-libraries were 
LGPLed. So in the backend, there's no change from SAPDB to MaxDB. The 
license of the client-libs are the main difference.

An example:
you need to include the JDBC-driver with your web-app. your webapp would 
need to be under GPL if you include the MaxDB JDBC driver which is under 
GPL too. In order order to keep your code from being under GPL, you need 
to buy MaxDB.

As the protocol of MaxDB hasn't changed since SAPDB 7.4, the old JDBC 
drivers will continue to work with MaxDB, but they will not be fixed, 
enhanced etc.
So that's the point where this project comes in. We will maintain and 
perhaps restructure the JDBC, ODBC and Python libs, so that people have 
a free LGPLed product to use.