On Jan 20, 2007, at 5:08 AM, Daniel L. Taylor wrote:
I wrongly was under the impression that using RB and REAL's plugin
would not make me deal with MySQL AB's licensing drama, and together
with a simpler installation and maintenance procedure, this was my
argument to use MySQL.
Before the new GPL plugin, that was true, wasn't it? I seem to
recall that the old version of the plugin was independently
developed, and that was the reason it didn't support all features
(like the latest password encryption), but you didn't have to deal
with the GPL.
Which brings me to this: if someone reverse engineered the protocol
being sent via TCP/IP and wrote an independent plugin, wouldn't
that also eliminate these headaches?
I believe (I may be wrong) that Marc at Aliacta (pgSQL4RB) looked
into doing something like this. MySQL publishes their backend
protocol in the documentation and I believe Marc was going to
implement it i along the same line as he did with PostgreSQL. I
believe MySQL threatened him with copyright infringement if he did
so. I'm not quite sure how they could do that if they publish/reveal
the protocol; but, you might run into the same issues here.
Mark
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