Paul,
Sunday, July 07, 2002, 11:05:18 PM, you wrote:

PS> At one place on the MySQL site I see:

PS>   http://www.mysql.com/support/arrangements.html

PS> which says the client library is under the LGPL.

PS> At another place I see:

PS>   http://www.mysql.com/doc/C/o/Copyright.html

PS> which says the entire codebase, including the client, is released under
PS> the GPL.

PS> Does this mean newer versions of MySQL client libraries are GPL'd?  I'll
PS> be disappointed if this is true, because there are plenty of open source
PS> licenses which are incompatible with the GPL.  This means that none of
PS> those other open source projects can use or include support for MySQL.
PS> Which is a shame.

3.23.XX API is under LGPL, 4.X API is under GPL instead of LGPL.
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