On 4/6/07, Zoran Vasiljevic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Am 06.04.2007 um 14:25 schrieb Stephen Deasey: > > > > > MySQL AB changed the licence for the client libraries to GPL some time > > ago to try to ensure that anyone linking to them also had to release > > their code under the GPL. The driver should probably be GPL. > > Hm... not necessarily... they actually offer commercial DB as well. > You can perfectly well BUY mysql. So it is not that simple as it > seems on the first glance. I cannot imagine all their libs are GPL > as that would mean that no commercial package may link against them > without letting the GPL virus inside...
Yeah, you can buy a licence for yourself, but you still can't release the driver to the public non-GPL (assuming the libs are still GPL only). > > If this is for a product you're shipping you might want to investigate > > further. If this is for your website it doesn't matter. > > It is actually for interfacing to an existing mysql instance that > we do not "own" or deliver. We just need to attach there and do > some data-mining. > > > > > If you import it, can you call it nsdbmysql, for consistency? > > Of course. Why not? Well, because it's currently called nsmysql. The 'db' is to distinguish it from the mythical 'dbi' drivers I keep threatening to release... ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ naviserver-devel mailing list naviserver-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/naviserver-devel
