Re: [naviserver-devel] mysql?

[Stephen D. <sd...@gm...>]

On 4/6/07, Zoran Vasiljevic <zv...@ar...> wrote:
>
> Am 06.04.2007 um 14:25 schrieb Stephen Deasey:
>
> >
> > MySQL AB changed the licence for the client libraries to GPL some time
> > ago to try to ensure that anyone linking to them also had to release
> > their code under the GPL.  The driver should probably be GPL.
>
> Hm... not necessarily... they actually offer commercial DB as well.
> You can perfectly well BUY mysql. So it is not that simple as it
> seems on the first glance. I cannot imagine all their libs are GPL
> as that would mean that no commercial package may link against them
> without letting the GPL virus inside...


Yeah, you can buy  a licence for yourself, but you still can't release
the driver to the public non-GPL (assuming the libs are still GPL
only).


> > If this is for a product you're shipping you might want to investigate
> > further. If this is for your website it doesn't matter.
>
> It is actually for interfacing to an existing mysql instance that
> we do not "own" or deliver. We just need to attach there and do
> some data-mining.
>
> >
> > If you import it, can you call it nsdbmysql, for consistency?
>
> Of course. Why not?


Well, because it's currently called nsmysql. The 'db' is to
distinguish it from the mythical 'dbi' drivers I keep threatening to
release...