On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 11:44:50PM -0500, Adam Majer wrote: > Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > > >http://www.mysql.com/products/licensing/foss-exception.html > > > >A few programs link currently the old non-GPL libmysqlclient10 in order > >to retain compatibility with other free licenses which have known > >problems and require exceptions (e.g. openssl). AFAIK the new > >statement should allow all those program to link the current > >libmysqlclient instead. See proftpd-mysql for an example of such kind > >of programs. > > > >Comments? > > > > > > > I think their exception is to allow free software to continue to use the > GPL version of MySQL software. They are doing this instead of reverting > back to LGPL because they want to get $$$ for licensing client libraries > for commercial software. > > I think MySQL will allow any free license to link with GPL MySQL, but I > would still ask MySQL AB if a license not listed is still allowed. >
That's exactly my thought. Let me consider that but for OpenSSL specificity, we could yet link php4-mysql and probably other pkgs with the current edition of the client library on the basis of this statement. A list of rdepends (there are probably stable-only pkgs among them too, sorry): aspseek-libmysqldb bayonne bitchx catalog courier-authmysql ctn ctn-dev dbf2mysql dbmail-mysql digitaldj dovecot-common exim4-daemon-heavy flow-tools freeradius-mysql gda2-mysql gda-mysql gnokii-smsd-mysql gpsdrive kannel kannel-extras libapache2-mod-auth-mysql libapache-mod-acct-mysql libapache-mod-auth-mysql libapache-mod-mp3 libdbd-mysql libgnademysql1 libgql-driver-0.5-mysql libmyodbc libmysqlclient10-dev libmysql-ocaml libnss-mysql libpam-mysql libqt3c102-mt-mysql libqt3c102-mysql libsasl2-modules-sql libvpopmail1 libvpopmail-lmysql libvpopmail-mysql libwidestudio-mysql linesrv-mysql mailutils mailutils-imap4d mailutils-mh mailutils-pop3d motion mysql-navigator mysqltcl nagios-mysql nagios-plugins php3-cgi-mysql php3-mysql php4-mysql pike0.6-mysql pike7.2-mysql pike7.4-mysql pike7.6-mysql pimppa postfix-mysql prelude-manager proftpd-mysql prokyon3 pure-ftpd-mysql python2.1-mysqldb python2.2-mysqldb python2.3-mysqldb sqlrelay-mysql tcl-sql teapop-mysql ulogd-mysql vpopmail-bin www-mysql xlc Now, of course not all of them are compatible with the expection explicitly, but they could be considered. That's because we could expect divergency in libmysqlclient API soon or after and the upstream probably link with the current edition. -- Francesco P. Lovergine
