On Fri, Dec 02, 2011 at 10:08:51AM +0000, Michael Meeks wrote: > On Fri, 2011-12-02 at 01:49 +0100, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:
>> Note that we still (maybe?) have a GPL problem with using the C++ >> connector. Maybe, because MySQL stuff used to not be straight-GPL, >> but GPL + exceptions for open source projects. > So - we are an LGPL project as a tactic, (...) > Bundling with MySQL's (IMHO horribly busted) weirdo license connector: > which is effectively a GPL licensed piece. Asking ISVS to GPL all > their software (or pay money to Oracle not to) by linking > effectively GPL mysql stuff into our core seems rather non-optimal. I'd say "not acceptable" :) I'll take "ISV" as "provider of an extension for LibO". With a quick reading of the MySQL/Oracle FLOSS exception, I thought the exception was saying that ISVs were allowed to distribute proprietary extensions to LibO-bundled-with-MySQL/Conn/C++ without getting a commercial licence on MySQL/Conn/C++ (unless their software links directly and independently of LibO with the connector), because we were allowed to distribute LibO under the LGPL/MIT, while still linking it with MySQL Connector/C++. Essentially, you are saying the exception is narrower than what I was reading from it. <shrug> I recognise that even under my broader reading, there is still a remaining problem: ISVs are not allowed to bundle on a single "distribution medium" LibO-with-MySQL/Conn/C++ with their proprietary extension. -- LIonel _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
