The newer MySQL client libraries are GPL (with the FLOSS exception), older versions were LGPL.
At http://dev.mysql.com/doc/internals/en/licensing-notice.html MySQL has put a descrption of their network protocol, where they force programs using this protocol to be GPL: >The MySQL Protocol is proprietary. > >The MySQL Protocol is part of the MySQL Database Management System. >As such, it falls under the provisions of the GNU Public License (GPL). >A copy of the GNU Public License is available on MySQL's web site, and >in the product download. > >Because this is a GPL protocol, any product which uses it to connect to >a MySQL server, or to emulate a MySQL server, or to interpose between >any client and server which uses the protocol, or for any similar purpose, >is also bound by the GPL. Therefore if you use this description to write a >program, you must release your program as GPL. Contact MySQL AB if you need >clarification of these terms or if you need to ask about alternative >arrangements. Does this affect all non GPL MySQL Clients (eg. libmysqlclient10)? mfg Martin Kögler PS: Please CC me on replies. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
