On Tue, 2003-12-16 at 02:09, Jeremy Zawodny wrote: > 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. > oh, that's nice for them
> Perhaps more pressure is needed? > yes, I guess if we all have to disable mysql support in our projects, that's going to be some kind of pressure. As I said, we don't want to do that, but if there's no solution, we'll be forced to. Do you know any other projects in the same situation? > I'll check with a few folks and see if I can turn up something... > ok, thanks. Please keep us informed. cheers -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]