This is the README file for GNOME-DB.

GNOME-DB is released under the terms of the GPL and LGPL licenses. The specific
parts of the architecture are licensed under one of them: executables, such as
the GNOME-DB front end or builder and the components are licensed under the
GPL license, which means that any work derived from it must also adhere to the
terms of the GPL license. Libraries (libgnomedb, libgnomedbcomponents)
are, on the other hand, licensed under the LGPL license, which
allows for commercial applications to be developed based on GNOME-DB.

To install GNOME-DB, you must first install libgda, which is the data access
framework used. If you've donwloaded the source code from CVS, there should
be a libgda/ directory. If so, cd to this directory, and run:

./autogen.sh
make && make install

Then, you can safely do the same for the gnome-db directory.

If you didn't get the sources from CVS, be sure to download libgda and install
it first as noted above. You can download it at the GNOME-DB web site at
http://www.gnome.org/projects/gnome-db/.