MySQL client relicense (was RE: Fedora Core 2 wishlists)

[Murray.Cumming at Comneon.com]

I asked on the MySQL lists. Apparently it's true.

Murray Cumming
www.murrayc.com
murrayc at usa.net

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> [mailto:fedora-devel-list-admin at redhat.com] On Behalf Of 
> Murray.Cumming at Comneon.com
> Sent: Mittwoch, 10. Dezember 2003 16:20
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> Subject: RE: MySQL client relicense (was RE: Fedora Core 2 wishlists)
> 
> 
> > > I am looking in the MySQL 4 tarball. Exactly what license
> > document do
> > > you mean? COPYING.LIB is still the LGPL.
> > 
> > COPYING.LIB is just a copy of the LGPL (I don't know why they
> > include it since nothing references it AFAIK).
> > 
> > The web site says it is all under the GPL, right at the top
> > of the download page at 
> > http://www.mysql.com/downloads/index.html.  > The manual from 
> > 4.0.16 says:
> > 
> >   All the `MySQL'-specific source in the server, the `mysqlclient'
> >   library and the client, as well as the `GNU' `readline' library is
> >   covered by the `GNU General Public License'.
> 
> Well, I think that's just because they are inept. I have 
> asked them about that before, but I think they were too inept 
> to understand the question. I find these pages more explicit:
> 
http://www.mysql.com/products/mysql++/index.html
http://www.mysql.com/documentation/mysql++/D_Copyright.html

I know that's talking about the C++ library, but it's hard to see how the
C++ wrapper of a GPL library could be LGPL, or why they would do that.

If nothing has changed and no announcement has been made and nobody has
asked them then I don't see a reason to think that the licensing has
changed.

Murray Cumming
www.murrayc.com
murrayc at usa.net




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