https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46259

--- Comment #10 from Anthony Youngman <[email protected]> ---
Okay. I'm digging into this (and getting myself thoroughly confused :-). I've
downloaded the MariaDB source and am digging into it. I've also read the readme
in LO in the mysqlc directory.

The readme says you need to pull in libmysql and libmysqlcppcon - I guess the
idea behind this bug is to use MariaDB's libmysql rather than MySQL's
libmysqlcppcon? OUCH!

Because if, as I think, we want to try and remove all GPL-only code, then this
is a waste of time. Because I've been looking at the source of libmysql in
MariaDB and the headers say GPL. Okay, the EXCEPTIONS-CLIENT file applies,
which allows FLOSS code under GPL-incompatible licences to be linked, but this
will then blow up with a vengeance if somebody wants to take advantage of the
MPL and mix it with closed code!

What next?

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