[Rails] Re: MySQL & ActiveRecord Licenses

2011-03-21 Thread Paul E. G. Lynch
On Mar 21, 4:46 pm, Frederick Cheung wrote: > On Mar 21, 8:05 pm, "Paul E. G. Lynch" wrote: > > That said, activerecord doesn't link to any native libraries. If you > use the mysql adapter, that pulls in the mysql gem, which does > obviously load the mysql library, but if you don't use mysql t

Re: [Rails] Re: MySQL & ActiveRecord Licenses

2011-03-21 Thread Chris Mear
On 21 Mar 2011, at 20:33, Bryan Crossland wrote: > On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 3:05 PM, Paul E. G. Lynch wrote: > >> GPL requires that if you link with the library, you have to have a GPL- >> compatible license so that the result is available under GPL. See: >> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.ht

[Rails] Re: MySQL & ActiveRecord Licenses

2011-03-21 Thread Frederick Cheung
On Mar 21, 8:05 pm, "Paul E. G. Lynch" wrote: > GPL requires that if you link with the library, you have to have a GPL- > compatible license so that the result is available under GPL.   > See:http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#LinkingWithGPL > > So, if ActiveRecord is linking with the MySQ

Re: [Rails] Re: MySQL & ActiveRecord Licenses

2011-03-21 Thread Bryan Crossland
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 3:05 PM, Paul E. G. Lynch wrote: > GPL requires that if you link with the library, you have to have a GPL- > compatible license so that the result is available under GPL. See: > http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#LinkingWithGPL > > So, if ActiveRecord is linking with

[Rails] Re: MySQL & ActiveRecord Licenses

2011-03-21 Thread Paul E. G. Lynch
GPL requires that if you link with the library, you have to have a GPL- compatible license so that the result is available under GPL. See: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#LinkingWithGPL So, if ActiveRecord is linking with the MySQL libraries, then my understanding is that it should be GP