On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 18:47, Pedro F. Giffuni <[email protected]> wrote: > --- On Thu, 6/30/11, Alexander Thurgood <[email protected]> wrote: > ... >> Le 29/06/11 23:05, Pedro F. Giffuni a écrit : >> >> Hi Pedro, >> >> I was particularly wondering about this one : >> >> > Name >> Version license >> > __________ >> >> > mysql-connector >> 1.1.0 GPL >> > > Hi Alex; > >> >> The connector-c package from Mysql containing the libmysql >> library is >> released under GPL2, at least that is what is says in the >> copy I have. > > All MySQL is GPLv2. This is not really a problem for us > because this is some functionality we would be likely to > make optional: not every OpenOffice user requires a db > connector (although it is admittedly cool).
Right. This would be an easy option for ./configure. Downstream packages/users can choose whether to use it or not, so it meets Apache's needs. >> Oracle owns Mysql, so one would have thought that in theory >> this code could also be granted to the ASF - however, it >> appears that that is still uncertain, since as you rightly >> point out the list given is silent on the licence >> information. > > > I think a connector license change would actually make a lot > of sense for *them*. The main competitor is BSD-licensed but > if they want to keep it copyleft I am pretty sure they know > the advantages of the CDDL, so perhaps someone should just > remind them ;) . It used to be under a more liberal license, and they moved it *to* GPLv2. The goal was to force more people into a custom (paid) license agreement for apps/tools that wanted to work with MySQL. I doubt they'd want to go back to a permissive license :-P But again... it is moot at this point because of the configure option for this whole set of functionality. Cheers, -g
