What about Connector/J from MariaDB? It is LGPL and (I think) that
should make it easier to mix with Apache license.

Best,
Sanel

Water Guo <water....@antsdb.com> writes:
> I am not an expert with software license. But my gut’s feeling is I can’t 
> claim Apache if I am using code from MySQL JDBC driver (GPL), can I?
>
>> On May 8, 2018, at 11:49 AM, Stack <st...@duboce.net> wrote:
>> 
>> On Mon, May 7, 2018 at 11:58 AM, Water Guo <water....@antsdb.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Not it is not. AntsDB has no dependence on MySQL code. It is written in
>>> Java and uses a couple of open source libraries.
>>> 
>>> 
>> Sorry. There seems to be a misunderstanding. I was just asking if why
>> antsdb has a GPL license rather than say an Apache one:
>> https://github.com/waterguo/antsdb/blob/master/LICENSE.txt
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> S
>> 
>> 
>>>> Sounds great Water. Lets take it for a spin. Quick question, why the "GNU
>>>> Affero General Public License, version 3" Is it up from mysql? Thanks,
>>>> S
>>> 
>>> On Mon, May 7, 2018 at 10:09 AM, Water Guo <water....@antsdb.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Dear HBase Community,
>>>> 
>>>> I’d like to take this opportunity to introduce my open source project
>>>> AntsDB. It is a database virtualization software that brings MySQL
>>>> compatibility to HBase. It means you can use any MySQL bindings such as
>>>> JDBC, ODBC, PHP, Perl to manipulate data in HBase. It supports most MySQL
>>>> DDLs and all DMLs, transaction control, table locks, row locks etc. Up to
>>>> date applications such as MySQL console, MySQL command lines,
>>> BenchmarkSQL,
>>>> MediaWiki, SonarQube, DBeaver, SquirrelSQL and many others can run
>>> directly
>>>> on HBase using AntsDB layer. The project is hosted at
>>>> https://github.com/waterguo/antsdb.
>>>> 
>>>> AntsDB is designed to support high concurrency, low latency applications.
>>>> It uses local storage as cache so it can further reduce the latency of
>>>> HBase. We have benchmarked AntsDB using YCSB. The result is at
>>>> http://www.antsdb.com/?p=171.
>>>> 
>>>> People always ask me how it is different from Phoenix. While Phoenix is
>>>> building a powerful SQL layer for HBase, we want to focus on backward
>>>> compatibility. We want to have applications built for MySQL can be used
>>>> directly on HBase. And people who are familiar with traditional
>>> relational
>>>> database can adopt HBase/Hadoop stack with ease.
>>>> 
>>>> I’d be very glad if you find the project is useful and your feedback is
>>>> very welcome.
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks
>>>> -water
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> 

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