Nick Kew wrote: > And indeed we have *exactly* such a deal. Whatever doubt there may > be over the applicability of the GPL or the FOSS Exception to us, > MySQL has helpfully published Appendix A to their FOSS exception, > *explicitly* permitting APR/APU to be distributed under ASL. > That is a clear and unambiguous yes.
We do? Reread the appendix; I believe their appendix is (paraphrasing) your OSS license, when distributed as *source*. > I think there remains one concession here. The build should default > to --without-mysql, so that people don't link it unintentionally. +1 - because of the with-source copyleft encumberance. We aught to ask MySQL to interpret; if they don't consider it a derived work due to binding (especially when we link 2, e.g. sqlite + mysql) then I hope to proceed
