[Qgis-developer] Native MS SQL 2008 Driver for QGIS

[Paolo Cavallini]

Il 05/09/2011 14:34, Marco Hugentobler ha scritto:
> I also think that a native QGIS provider (subclass of QgsVectorDataProvider) 
> for MS SQL 2008 would be a great thing. The reason to go for a native driver 

> Btw. a native oracle spatial provider would also be nice to have. Oracle 
> spatial is (unfortunately) quite common here.

I guess the main obstacle is with licencing: if QGIS has to be built against non-free
libraries, the resulting object may have an hybrid licence, unsuitable for distribution.
>From a technical point of view, integration in the DB manager (and QGIS providers)
Giuseppe is writing is IMHO the way to go.
All the best.
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