On Jan 23, 2007, at 4:11 PM, Paul McNett wrote:
>> Dabo isn't using the MySQLdb connector to make it work.
>> If MySQLdb would be used for the preferences instead of sqlite,
>> dabo had to be GPL.
>
> Only if Dabo distributed MySQLdb. Merely requiring it doesn't link
> it to
> Dabo.
The original question was whether we could distribute the serial
module that was required for the demo.
> The question is the term "link". If we had made
> Dabo's preferences save to MySQL, *and* we had rolled up MySQLdb into
> Dabo and redistributed it, *then* we would be GPL. But if we merely
> made
> MySQLdb a requirement and left it up to our users to install the
> dependencies, this would not be the case.
You should explain that to MySQL's legal department, then. They
claim that if you create an app that uses MySQL and does not work
without it, and you distribute that app, then your app must be GPL
even if you require the users to download, install and set up the
MySQL server themselves. Personally, I think that they use this
language in order to sell more commercial licenses, but AFAIK this
position has never been shown to be groundless.
-- Ed Leafe
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