I got this forwarded to me. Yes the library from 4.0 and above is now GPL. And in 3.23 it was LGPL.
As for the inability to link with OpenSSL we as the copyright holder can allow this. And we do so. The same license incomparability problem also appears for the Apache and Eclipse people that we are talking to. Basically we will allow linking with our GPL library with any true OpenSource package (OSI guidelines). We will but something in the license but I need to get something from a lawyer and also get it approved by IBM legal department that might take time... /David > - ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2002 18:23:50 +0100 > From: Christian Hammers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Please clarify copyright of shared library. > > Hello > > The follwing bug was reported against the Debian libmysqlclient10 > package. Can you comment on this? > > The mentioned /usr/share/doc/ copyright file includes a copy of > http://www.mysql.com/doc/C/o/Copyright.html > > bye, > > - -christian- > > On Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 05:03:06PM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote: > > Package: libmysqlclient10 > > Version: 3.23.51-1woody4 > > Severity: normal > > > > Hello, > > /usr/share/doc/libmysqlclient10/copyright states "This program is > > free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the > > terms of the GNU General Public License". > > > > If you take a look at the files in > > mysql-dfsg-3.23.53/libmysql/* you'll notice that all of them are > > licensed under *L*GPL. > > > > Nevertheless this does not make libmysqlclient10 licensed under LGPL > > because mysql-dfsg-3.23.53/libmysql/net.c includes mysqld_error.h, a > > GPLed file. > > > > Please clarify this issue with upstream, whether this was an accident > > and libmysqlclient10 is supposed to be LGPL or if it was intended and > > libmysqlclient10 is indeed licensed under GPL. > > > > I hope it is the former, else it'd be impossible to link against > > libmysqlclient10 and e.g. OpenSSL at the same time. > > thanks, cu andreas > > # for the robot: php mysql > > > - --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Before posting, please check: > http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) > http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) > > To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: For info see http://quantumlab.net/pine_privacy_guard/ > > iD8DBQE+QPhYSVDhKrJykfIRAnPRAJ9AkHxydO9F9Lzsznu1X8/RbhThRgCdEaNm > YgEWiQ6elrk6flTzGOYOY+o= > =dhbr > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
