Le 17/09/11 21:43, Andreas Säger a écrit :
Hi Andreas, > As far as I know, it is shipped with LibreOffice. > Choose database type MySQL instead of JDBC or ODBC. > It is neither built nor shipped by the LibreOffice project. It is shipped with various Linux distributions, who include it in their extensions build setup. Why, well firstly because no one gives a damn, and second, to build the connector you have to rely on the mysql C connector library (even if you use mysql C++ library) and that library is GPL2, which means that the connector that links to it has to be released under the GPL (this is in fact what Sun did with the native connector extension). The LibO project releases under the LGPL/MPL and not the GPL. At the moment, the OOo mysql native connector is available for download from here : http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/en/project/mysql_connector My advice, get it while you can and keep a copy near to hand. How long that will remain the case now that this site is to integrated into the ApacheOOo project remains to be seen, because Apache can not accept GPLed code into its projects. I have built the native connector for MacOSX and put it on the LibreOffice extensions site, but as far as I know, no one has built it for Windows or Linux (on Linux the question is mostly irrelevant because the distribs provide it in most cases, however, that does mean you are tied to the distrib version of LibreOffice). Alex -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
