On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 10:50:43PM +0100, Rodrigo Moya wrote: > Hi > > We have been supporting MySQL in the GNOME-DB project > (http://www.gnome-db.org) since the beginning almost (1998). GNOME-DB > provides several liraries, and one of those is a plugin-based generic > data access library (libgda) which allows access to several DBMS, by > dlopen'ing the plugins. Each of those plugins provide access to a > specific RDBMS. > > The library (libgda) is LGPL, so it seems we are not able to have it > link against the GPL version of MySQL. > > So, we have been thinking about what to do, and so far we only see 3 > possibilities: > > * force libgda to link against the LGPL MySQL libraries, but I suppose > there won't be any 4.x LGPL libraries, right? > * have the MySQL plugin communicate with the library via local > sockets/message queues/whatever so that we don't link to it directly. > * completely remove support for MySQL, which, for obvious reasons, we'd > prefer to avoid. > > So far, we have disabled MySQL access in the CVS version until we know > what to do.
I *thought* that MySQL AB was coming up with some sort of exception for GPL'd free software but I don't remember if that got resolved. Perhaps more pressure is needed? I'll check with a few folks and see if I can turn up something... Jeremy -- Jeremy D. Zawodny | Perl, Web, MySQL, Linux Magazine, Yahoo! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://jeremy.zawodny.com/ -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
