Nick, Nick Kew schrieb: > On 30 Jul 2009, at 06:13, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: > >> In between are mysql and db which both have copy-left viral terms >> but are not GPL per say. I thought we had worked out that apr_dbd_mysql >> is ok, but I can't find the notes :( > > re: MySQL > > If it helps, I just checked back in my blog: > http://bahumbug.wordpress.com/2007/08/08/apacheapr-mysql-driver/ > > It's clear the date of that blog article follows discussion on-list > that led to the decision to include it, and it sets out the terms on > which we distribute it as I see it: > > "Suppose we were distributing a non-free product that was arguably a > MySQL “derivative work” under the terms of the GPL. We could negotiate > terms with MySQL. For a commercial product, that would probably mean > paying them money, but that’s beside the point. Under our agreement with > MySQL, we can distribute our product on our agreed terms, without > reference to the GPL. No problem. > > But that’s exactly what the FOSS Exception gives us. Explicit permission > to distribute our product under the ASL. We didn’t pay for it, but we > got it anyway. End of problem." but does this also cover distributign binaries which link against libmysql.[so|dll|nlm] ? And while on this topic: how about PgSQL?
Gün.
