On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 09:54:41AM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 01:26:35PM +0200, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: >> we have some news about #167747 which is potentially of interest >> of all packages which links OpenSSL libraries and MySQL libraries. >> MySQL libraries currently are plain GPL, NOT LGPL as someone thought. > Unless they're trying to retroactively revoke the LGPL license, versions > of the libs prior to MySQL 4.0 are still available under thh LGPL. [...]
It's not that simple. Quoting myself in http://bugs.debian.org/168554 |Nevertheless this does not make libmysqlclient10 licensed under LGPL |because mysql-dfsg-3.23.53/libmysql/net.c includes mysqld_error.h, a |GPLed file. | |Please clarify this issue with upstream, whether this was an accident |and libmysqlclient10 is supposed to be LGPL or if it was intended and |libmysqlclient10 is indeed licensed under GPL. cu andreas
