Re: Distributing JDBC Drivers

From: Gerbrand van Dieijen (gerbrand_at_twistedPUNTwarande.net)
Date: 03/23/04 

Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 21:55:06 +0000 (UTC)

On Tue, 23 Mar 2004 12:35:40 -0000, Lawrie Gallardo wrote:
>I am currently developing a shrink-wrapped Java product that needs the
>ability to connect with all the most common databases (Oracle, SQL Server,
>DB2, etc). Therefore I want to be able to distribute JDBC drivers for these
>databases. However, I am not sure what the licensing restrictions are likely
>to be on JDBC drivers, and whether this is going to be an issue.
>
>Are there high quality JDBC drivers available for the likes of Oracle, SQL
>Server, DB2, etc that I can distribute freely (or at least inexpensively)
>with my product?
>

odbc is included within Java, and you can include the postgresql driver
and hsqldb driver (both are open source). I'm not sure about MySQL, but I
think this is allowed too provided your application doesn't depend on it.

As for the other, I think you could it very easy to include other
drivers in your application (like dynamically adding it to the class).
Because Oracle, SQL Server, DB2 are quite to very expensive, there are
probably expert people for the company too that can download and install a
jdbc driver. 

-- 
Gerbrand van Dieijen

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