Re: [Maria-discuss] MariaDB and the SCA

2009-09-04 Thread Arjen Lentz
Hi Paul On 04/09/2009, at 7:10 PM, Paul McCullagh wrote: Thanks for giving us the inside on that one. It has been a point of confusion for me, and I have read the GPL a few times to try to figure it out. Oh look the GPL and its FAQ sorts out most, and my article on the dev.mysql.com site

Re: [Maria-discuss] MariaDB and the SCA

2009-09-04 Thread Paul McCullagh
Hi Arjen, Thanks for giving us the inside on that one. It has been a point of confusion for me, and I have read the GPL a few times to try to figure it out. In the meantime I am certain that my understanding is correct, that there is nothing illegal about shipping mysqld with a closed sou

Re: [Maria-discuss] MariaDB and the SCA

2009-09-04 Thread Paul McCullagh
On Sep 4, 2009, at 2:20 AM, Arjen Lentz wrote: Hi Mark On 04/09/2009, at 9:25 AM, MARK CALLAGHAN wrote: Back in the day there was an assertion in the MySQL internals PDF with respect to the license of any client library created after reading that doc. The PDF has been replaced by HTML and I

Re: [Maria-discuss] MariaDB and the SCA

2009-09-03 Thread Arjen Lentz
Hi Mark On 04/09/2009, at 9:25 AM, MARK CALLAGHAN wrote: Back in the day there was an assertion in the MySQL internals PDF with respect to the license of any client library created after reading that doc. The PDF has been replaced by HTML and I don't see that claim anymore. Does anyone remember

Re: [Maria-discuss] MariaDB and the SCA

2009-09-03 Thread MARK CALLAGHAN
On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Arjen Lentz wrote: > Hi Paul > > On 03/09/2009, at 10:54 PM, Paul McCullagh wrote: >> >> As far as I know, with the advent of the BSD licensed libdrizzle >> (https://launchpad.net/libdrizzle), which also runs with MySQL (and I assume >> MariaDB), the dual licensing m

Re: [Maria-discuss] MariaDB and the SCA

2009-09-03 Thread Arjen Lentz
Hi Paul On 03/09/2009, at 10:54 PM, Paul McCullagh wrote: As far as I know, with the advent of the BSD licensed libdrizzle (https://launchpad.net/libdrizzle ), which also runs with MySQL (and I assume MariaDB), the dual licensing model is now irrelevant. You're legally correct (apart from li