On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 09:22:52PM -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> With Debian, if I need mysql support I simply install the extra package
> postfix-mysql, which depends on libmysqlclient. (This is the same
> procedure for acquiring pgsql, pcre, cdb, ldap, etc capability)
>
> So by installing the package postfix-mysql and libmysqlclient, am I
> violating a license agreement? If not, what's the difference, and why?
This is a legal question. The postfix-mysql loadable object links
Postfix table driver code available under the IPL against the MySQL
shared library. Whether this is allowed under the MySQL license is
not completely clear.
It is not a problem with Postgres or LDAP.
--
Viktor.
