Ed Leafe wrote: > 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.
I'm sorry I started this... >> 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. One of the biggest problems with licenses like the GPL (that are more than a paragraph long) is that nobody really knows how they'll be interpreted in the precedent-setting court case that will happen sometime in the future. -- pkm ~ http://paulmcnett.com _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/dabo-dev
