On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 08:20:30PM -0400, David Nalley wrote: > On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 7:19 PM, Rohit Yadav > <rohit.ya...@citrix.com> wrote: > > Hi David, I think there should not be any issues. It's a runtime > > dependency just like pymysql and obtainable from cheeseshop/pypi > > using pip/easy_install and while building/installing/running > > marvin (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/mysql-connector-python). It's > > the same case with other deps like nose, unittest-xml-reporting > > etc. > > > > I think it should be used as it's developed and maintained by the > > MySQL server people and there is nothing we're introducing. > > mysql-connector-python and MySQL server are both released under > > GPLv2, pymysql have their own license: > > https://github.com/petehunt/PyMySQL/blob/master/LICENSE > > > > > So there are a number of potential problems - GPL/LGPL/copyleft > dependencies can be problematic and even forbidden. Moreover it may > inject requirements on us to report it in NOTICE or LICENSE. See > Chips note about an earlier problem around this: > http://markmail.org/message/huevw4ur73a64b5c > > We _HAVE_ to handle this on an ongoing basis, an audit after the > fact is too expensive in terms of time and effort. If anyone > adds/subtracts/changes a dependency, we need to discuss it, verify > that we can use it, and document it.
Hi David, mysql-connector-python is nothing but a cousin to mysql-connector-java that we earlier had resolved licensing issues with. Aside from the reason for changing the connector I didn't see a problem in having this as a runtime dependency since the FOSS exception added to all mysql -server/client/connector projects as noted below: http://www.mysql.com/about/legal/licensing/foss-exception/ allows Apache projects to include these connectors. It should probably be more acceptable than pymysql that wasn't licensed conveniently like this. If there are any follow-ups / tasks / release notes to be taken up to allow its inclusion, please let me know. I will take those up. Sorry for not bringing this earlier to the lists. But in my haste to fix the issue I forget to take guidance on the licensing and legal problems that you guys tirelessly worked out earlier. No other harm intended. -- Prasanna.,
