On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 1:02 PM, Sergiu Dumitriu <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. > > I confirm that if you only distribute the MYSQL client, there is a FLOSS Licence exception that means you are not outlaw ;) > -- > Sergiu Dumitriu > http://purl.org/net/sergiu/ > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
