Op donderdag 29 december 2011 10:21:35 schreef Maarten Vanraes: > Hi, > > I'm a packager for mageia, and i'm working to get branch 5.5 submitted on > our system, replacing mysql. > > However, we have readline v6 on mageia, which is GPLv3, and serg added the > NOT_FOR_DISTRIBUTION variable, which makes it build a bundled readline v5. > well, it builds for us too, but later i get a conflict situation on our > system between mariadb-common and mariadb-client (i didn't look deep into > it). > > but normally we try to use as much system shared libraries as possible, > also, what about security fixes + bug fixes in this bundled readline v5, > etc... i donno how long v5 will be maintained by gnu, this is not an ideal > situation. > > i've checked and noted that mariadb server is GPLv2only and mariadb client > has a FLOSS exception... which doesn't mention GPLv3 > > so i'm a bit at a loss here, ideally we want to use system shared readline > v6 on our distribution... > > it's a bit of a PITA for me, tbh, i mean, it's all open source, i don't > really get why this is all so difficult... :-( > > I guess the easiest way for us is if mariadb was GPLv2+ we could go ahead > and use readline v6. > > I guess i'm asking for a way to proceed for us. > > Regards, > > AL13N
I don't know if this is related or not, but i found this text: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E17952_01/refman-5.1-en/license-gnu-readline.html i note the "or later" in this text. does this mean that the GPLv2 license is also a GPLv2+ license for mysql? _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~maria-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~maria-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
