Hi!
Ryan alerted me to this thread. I run engineering at MySQL and spend some of my time working on community issues.
So I have read the thread so far concerning MySQL and the apr and have a few questions, so please bare with me while I try to understand the problem.
So, you have a --with-mysql flag correct? Is it enabled by default? Or is it up to end user if they compile with MySQL support correct?
From your download page everything is available via source, not binaries correct? So the end user will have to decide if they want MySQL and if they are comfortable with the GPL correct?
The GPL boils down for us to a simple "Quid Pro Quo". If you are open source, we are open source. This means that if you write an open source application then you should have zero to worry about, if you are writing a closed source application and need to link to our client libraries then you need to pay a license fee. I am aware that this is not the ASF model of open source, but it is ours.
Keep in mind that I have released personally well over a dozen Apache modules, and all of them use one version or the other of the ASF license. So I do understand the issues surrounding the ASF licenses.
Oh, and I am not a lawyer :)
-Brian
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