Hello,

Not that I particularly love MySQL but as it is important to other
people, let me ask: why is licensing a problem with MySQL at all? To
me, it looks clear:

- If you are using MySQL under the GPL license, you can only use Wt
under the GPL license
- If you are using MySQL under a commercial license, you can use Wt
under a commercial license (therefore you can apply whatever terms you
want to the end result)
- If you are using MySQL under a commercial license, can you use Wt
under a GPL license? I am not sure but I'd say this will no be a
real-world scenario. If I paid for a MySQL license, I am probably
willing to pay for Wt license.

Conclusion: if you want to develop closed-source applications which
use Wt and the Wt::Dbo MySQL backend, you need to buy a commercial
license for Wt and a commercial license for MySQL.

That's more or less how Qt does it for the QtSql MySQL plugin (
http://doc.trolltech.com/4.6/sql-driver.html )

On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 10:19 AM, Wim Dumon <[email protected]> wrote:
> 2010/2/9 mobi phil <[email protected]>:
>> Back to my earlier questions: are there any news about mysql license
>> issues and the mysql backend?
>>
>
> We'll probably implement it using the drizzle client library (BSD
> licensed). Drizzle is said to be compatible with MySql.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Regards,
> Wim.
>
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