On 12/06/2009 03:16 PM, Thomas Mortagne wrote: > Hi xwikiers, > > I just tough now that we are currently distribution XEM with MySQL > included in it and that we maybe don't have right to do it actually. > > I'm not an expert so not sure what we should do but distribute GPL > stuff in a package declared as LGPL is forbidden AFAIK.
What exactly are we distributing? The client library, which we probably include in our package and which works directly inside our software, has a FOSS exception to the GPL allowing us to bundle it in a non GPL software: http://www.mysql.com/about/legal/licensing/oem/ -- the "For Open Source Projects and Other Developers of Open Source Applications" section I doubt that we bundle the server in our current distribution, but even if we will do it in a VM image or something like that, I think we can do it, since it's a server, and we only communicate with it via sockets or pipes, which don't propagate the GPL license. In conclusion, as long as we don't bundle the connector in a proprietary (non-FLOSS) package, we're fine. -- Sergiu Dumitriu http://purl.org/net/sergiu/ _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
