Re: [Mysqlcppapi-main] Re: mysqlcppapi needs a new maintainer

[Howard C. <how...@se...>]

As Jonathan Wakely and Sinisa Milivojevic point out, the license for
mysqlcppapi is irrelevant when the underlying library has changed from LGPL
tp GPL.

I know that employees of MySQL AB contribute to this mailing list. Can any
of them get a company viewpoint on the development of a LGPL version of the
API to further the development of mysqlcppapi as a LGPL only project.

I assume the reasoning behind the change from LGPL to GPL is commercial, and
it was not just a typo! It is great to have MySQL as an open-source project,
but I do feel that changing the licence is perhaps taking advantage of the
goodwill of all the software community. Sort of doing a SCO on the SQL world
by putting doubt on the commercial use of the library!

Please, to make life easier, just make the MySql libraries LGPL again!

Howard Cole

P.S.  My congratulations go out to the people in charge of the licensing of
MySQL clients for generating the most confusing licensing guidelines in the
world! I am under the impression that the guidelines are there to make
people think that they always need a commercial licence "when in doubt".
Just to add to the confusion, finding a price for client licenses on the
website is impossible!