--On Monday, February 28, 2011 11:32 PM -0500 Victor Duchovni
<victor.ducho...@morganstanley.com> wrote:
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 09:22:52PM -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
With Debian, if I need mysql support I simply install the extra package
postfix-mysql, which depends on libmysqlclient. (This is the same
procedure for acquiring pgsql, pcre, cdb, ldap, etc capability)
So by installing the package postfix-mysql and libmysqlclient, am I
violating a license agreement? If not, what's the difference, and why?
This is a legal question. The postfix-mysql loadable object links
Postfix table driver code available under the IPL against the MySQL
shared library. Whether this is allowed under the MySQL license is
not completely clear.
It is not a problem with Postgres or LDAP.
After filing a bug with RedHat about their GPL violation, they got on the
phone with Oracle, and Oracle updated the MySQL FOSS exception list to
include IBM Public License 1.0. So this is no longer a problem for anyone.
--Quanah
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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Sr. Member of Technical Staff
Zimbra, Inc
A Division of VMware, Inc.
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