Re: A question about mm.mysql and the GPL

2002-08-20 Thread Mark Matthews
j.random.programmer wrote: > Hi: > > Firstly, I'd like to congratulate both MySQL AB and > Mr. Mathews on making the JDBC driver an officialy > supported download. > > I have a query though. Newer versions of the mm.mysql > driver (now called connector/j) will be released *not* > under the LGPL

Re: A question about mm.mysql and the GPL

2002-08-19 Thread Tod Harter
On Monday 19 August 2002 07:21 am, Nicolas Ivering wrote: Several things spring to mind here... 1st of all when you use JDBC, you're coding to the JDBC interface, not to any proprietary interface (IE, your application could just as well call a PostgreSQL JDBC driver and it would not need to be

Re: A question about mm.mysql and the GPL

2002-08-19 Thread Nicolas Ivering
I'm not from an official source but I would imagine the reason for the change of license is to be able to charge for a non-GPL version of the driver. With that in mind it wouldn't make much sence if you could use the driver with a non-GPL program without making the program GLP also (and thus a

A question about mm.mysql and the GPL

2002-08-19 Thread j.random.programmer
Hi: Firstly, I'd like to congratulate both MySQL AB and Mr. Mathews on making the JDBC driver an officialy supported download. I have a query though. Newer versions of the mm.mysql driver (now called connector/j) will be released *not* under the LGPL but under the GPL. Now if I am using the my