Andreas Berger wrote:
and let the client download and install MySQL seperatly. He said no
since the component used by Delphi was GPL and therefore forced me to
distribute my sourcecode anyway.
My question: does anyone know how this issue stands with Lazarus?
The same because probably the mysql client library is licensed under the
GPL and when you link to it, then your app needs to be licensed under
the GPL as well.
To solve this, you need to reimplement the mysql client library
"clean-room" (that means, using the protocol specification only) that
talks to the server, under another license; BSD or the modified LGPL
license we use, for example.
Micha
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