ORM Goes Open Source

Posted by Hemos on Monday August 30, 2004 @01:56AM from the tools-for-use dept.

grd000 writes "I have been using Olero Software's Object Relational Mapping and Code Generation Tool (ORM) for Microsoft .NET for the last year or so with great success. I'm delighted to say that yesterday, the Olero folks decided to release their $495 tool as open source. I'm not sure what prompted the decision. Sluggish sales? In any event, this is a boon for .NET developers. ORM speeds up development by generating a C# or VB-targeted object based on a given database schema. Inserts, updates and deletes can be performed using simple or complex criteria in just a few lines of source code, and with transactional support."

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Too bad by The+Bungi · 2004-08-30 05:28 · Score: 0, Troll

The library is released under the GPL. If it were licensed under something else (even the LGPL) I'd actually consider using it, but I have no intention of releasing the source to my applications just to give it a go.
Of course it's the author's call to decide which license they want to use, but even in the open source world less and less "pure" libraries are being released under the GPL to promote their use.
Ah well.