Path: news.easynews.com!core-easynews!newsfeed1.easynews.com!easynews.com!easynews!news-out.nuthinbutnews.com!propagator2-sterling!news-in-sterling.newsfeed.com!skynet.be!skynet.be!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!207.140.171.60!not-for-mail From: Chuck Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server Subject: Re: script of creation tables. Date: Mon, 5 May 2003 16:32:47 -0400 Lines: 23 Message-ID: References: <1fm5z98z6hrny$.1o7u65b2rk4rk.dlg@40tude.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.140.171.60 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1052166769 16754250 207.140.171.60 (16 [85580]) User-Agent: 40tude_Dialog/2.0.5.1 Xref: core-easynews comp.databases.oracle.server:185342 X-Received-Date: Mon, 05 May 2003 13:32:20 MST (news.easynews.com) On Mon, 05 May 2003 19:11:08 +0000, bsnyder wrote: > On Mon, 05 May 2003 18:56:02 +0000, Chuck wrote: > >> On Mon, 5 May 2003 17:23:52 +0200, Sergio wrote: >> >>> Exist a command to know the script of table creation? Thanks >> >> What version of Oracle? If 9.2, you can use the dbms_metadata package. > > Tora is *THE* Open Source tool for Oracle (and PostgreSQL): > > http://www.globecom.se/tora/ Unless I'm reading something wrong, GPL licensed software must be free. Tora's web site says it's distributed under the GPL license but also says commerical users must purchase a license. How can that be? Doesn't this violate the GNU GPL which is available at www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html and states in section 2b that programs are to be "licensed as a whole at _no charge_ to all third parties under the terms of this License." I'm very suspicious of anyone that tries to charge for software distributed under GPL. I wouldn't touch it with a 10 foot pole.