mysql 4.x and fedoracore2

[Paul Howarth]

Scot L. Harris wrote:
> If you were modifying the mysql code and providing a different version
> fine.  But in most cases you are simply using the database program not
> modifying its source code.  Your data structures and code that interacts
> with the database should be unencumbered.  Kind of like saying that
> since you compiled your program using gcc that it now has to be
> published as source code.  I don't think that was the intention of the
> GPL.  And is not the way most people have interpreted it. 

Most MySQL apps will be linked against the MySQL libraries. The developers 
have made a conscious decision to license the software under the GPL rather 
than the LGPL (which would allow 'unencumbered' distribution in the manner you 
described), so that's clearly *their* intention. And it's the way the GPL is 
intended to work. The GNU readline library is licensed in the same way. If you 
use it, you must GPL your code. If you don't want to do that, don't use it.

Paul.