Nick Kew wrote:
> On 31 Jul 2009, at 07:28, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote:
>
>> In between are mysql and db which both have copy-left viral terms
>> but are not GPL per say. I thought we had worked out that apr_dbd_mysql
>> is ok, but I can't find the notes :(
>
> Regarding MySQL, we have the FOSS exception, which grants explicit
> permission to distribute apr_dbd_mysql under the ASL.
The FLOSS exception adds additional terms, read it again. But, since
we don't enable by default, since we don't/won't distribute the client
libs themselves, and since the binary artifact IS FLOSS, I think that
we are in full compliance with the copyleft proviso of the exception,
and similarly the Berkeley DB terms.
> Regarding Berkeley DB and, um, weak copyleft, are you thinking of
> a rather implausible case of a third-party developing and distributing
> a derived product using exclusively our binary, without reference to
> our source code?
It's impossible for our binary on Win32 not to reference its version
and origin, this is compiled-in as a version resource (readable from
File - Properties - Details (or Version in older flavors of Windows)
by any Windows user. The attached illustrates this metadata, and
DLL_NAME for purposes of the attached reflects "apr_dbd_mysql" etc,
module by module.
Now, for the full MySQL client and Berkeley DB .dll's - we don't ship
them, the user combines them, and if another distributor were to combine
our binaries with MySQL, Berkeley DB and other modules, they would be
responsible to construct the appropriate license regimen and notices.
#include "apu_version.h"
#define APU_COPYRIGHT "Copyright (c) 2009 The Apache Software " \
"Foundation or its licensors, as applicable."
#define APU_LICENSE \
"Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more " \
"contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with " \
"this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership. " \
"The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0 " \
"(the ""License""); you may not use this file except in compliance with " \
"the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at\r\n\r\n" \
"http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0\r\n\r\n"; \
"Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software " \
"distributed under the License is distributed on an ""AS IS"" BASIS, " \
"WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. " \
"See the License for the specific language governing permissions and " \
"limitations under the License."
#ifdef DLL_NAME
#define APU_DLL_BASENAME APU_STRINGIFY(DLL_NAME) "-"
APU_STRINGIFY(APU_MAJOR_VERSION)
#define APU_DLL_DESCRIPTION "Apache Portable Runtime " APU_STRINGIFY(DLL_NAME)
" Module"
#else
#define APU_DLL_BASENAME "libaprutil-" APU_STRINGIFY(APU_MAJOR_VERSION)
#define APU_DLL_DESCRIPTION "Apache Portable Runtime Utility Library"
#endif
1 VERSIONINFO
FILEVERSION APU_VERSION_STRING_CSV,0
PRODUCTVERSION APU_VERSION_STRING_CSV,0
FILEFLAGSMASK 0x3fL
#if defined(APU_IS_DEV_VERSION)
#if defined(_DEBUG)
FILEFLAGS 0x03L
#else
FILEFLAGS 0x02L
#endif
#else
#if defined(_DEBUG)
FILEFLAGS 0x01L
#else
FILEFLAGS 0x00L
#endif
#endif
#if defined(WINNT) || defined(WIN64)
FILEOS 0x40004L
#else
FILEOS 0x4L
#endif
FILETYPE 0x2L
FILESUBTYPE 0x0L
BEGIN
BLOCK "StringFileInfo"
BEGIN
BLOCK "040904b0"
BEGIN
VALUE "Comments", APU_LICENSE "\0"
VALUE "CompanyName", "Apache Software Foundation\0"
VALUE "FileDescription", APU_DLL_DESCRIPTION "\0"
VALUE "FileVersion", APU_VERSION_STRING "\0"
VALUE "InternalName", APU_DLL_BASENAME "\0"
VALUE "LegalCopyright", APU_COPYRIGHT "\0"
VALUE "OriginalFilename", APU_DLL_BASENAME ".dll\0"
VALUE "ProductName", "Apache Portable Runtime Project\0"
VALUE "ProductVersion", APU_VERSION_STRING "\0"
END
END
BLOCK "VarFileInfo"
BEGIN
VALUE "Translation", 0x409, 1200
END
END
