I asked on the MySQL lists. Apparently it's true.
Murray Cumming
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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:
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
murrayc(a)usa.net
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