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

Wednesday, 10 December 2003

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 > 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(a)usa.net

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