On Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 09:06:35PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman scribbled: > Previously Steve Langasek wrote: > > The new libmysqlclient12 package comes from MySQL 4.0. It has been > > known for some time that the libmysqclient library in MySQL 4.0 would > > *not* be released under the LGPL: it is GPL only. If your package which > > links against libmysqclient is not GPL-compatible, or if your package is > > a library which is used by other GPL-incompatible packages in Debian, > > you cannot upload your package built against libmysqlclient12. > > It's even worse: from what I gather the new libmysqlclient is linked > with OpenSSL, which is not compatible with the GPL. So if your package > is GPLed you can't link with libmysqlclient since that will pull in > OpenSSL, but if you package does not have a GPL compatible license you > can't use libmysqlclient either. What about a case as mine - Pike 7.4 is MPL/GPL/LGPL. How does that look in this situation?
marek
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