I believe the library from MariaDB is a drop-in replacement so it should be
possible to use it instead, but I haven't done it so not sure.
Thanks,
Aleksander
On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 1:50 PM, Paul Baxter <[email protected]> wrote:
> I really like what I’ve seen so far with SOCI and its excellent
> documentation.
>
> Because my main use is with MySQL, I’ve been looking at how to communicate
> between my app and MySQL
>
> I’m a little confused, but from what I’ve read, if I use MySQL’s
> connectors/libraries, I appear to need to either GPL my application or
> purchase a commercial license.
> e.g.
>
> http://www.h-online.com/open/features/Connectors-controversy-and-the-LGPL-1792282.html
>
> The docs say “The SOCI MySQL backend requires MySQL's libmysqlclient client
> library”
> which indicates I have a problem in a non-GPL app?
>
> Do I have any other options?
> e.g.
> Using generic ODBC to connect using MySQL/ODBC as a separate customer
> download but not requiring any linking or source code sharing when building
> my app, so OK for my app to not to be GPL.
> or
> MariaDB have produced a connector for C and ODBC licensed under the LGPL to
> allow dynamic linking without the need to GPL my application. (Based on the
> MySQL codebase when it was LGPL and forked/updated). Can this be used
> instead?
> https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb/client-libraries/client-library-for-c/
> or
> https://mariadb.com/products/connectors-plugins
>
>
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