Yes dynamically linking to a library that uses mySQL GPL code triggers
the GPL license.

However, IANAL but I would agree that if you made a standalone
application (graphic or background) and that this application was a
"middleman" of sorts between your real application and mySQL and all
this middleman did was provide a service for your real
application (i.e. Used IPC or AppleScript or listened on a port for
communications) I think that would be a successful sidestep of the GPL
requirement. Of course the middleman code would have to be GPL.

Dean Davis
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