On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 06:03:18PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: > On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 09:54:41AM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 01:26:35PM +0200, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > >> we have some news about #167747 which is potentially of interest > >> of all packages which links OpenSSL libraries and MySQL libraries. > >> MySQL libraries currently are plain GPL, NOT LGPL as someone thought. > > Unless they're trying to retroactively revoke the LGPL license, versions > > of the libs prior to MySQL 4.0 are still available under thh LGPL. > [...] > It's not that simple. > Quoting myself in http://bugs.debian.org/168554 > |Nevertheless this does not make libmysqlclient10 licensed under LGPL > |because mysql-dfsg-3.23.53/libmysql/net.c includes mysqld_error.h, a > |GPLed file. > | > |Please clarify this issue with upstream, whether this was an accident > |and libmysqlclient10 is supposed to be LGPL or if it was intended and > |libmysqlclient10 is indeed licensed under GPL. > cu andreas Looking at the contents of mysqld_error.h on my system, I would assert that nothing within it is copyrightable, at least in the US. It is nothing more than a list of defines mapping textual error code names to their numeric values. If someone believes this is really a licensing concern, you can eliminate the dependency easily enough by grepping the LGPL sources for references to 'ER_*', and empirically determining their values either by consulting documentation or looking at the wire. But again, I assert that because this would produce an almost verbatim copy of the existing file, doing so would be nothing more than superfluous busywork. Regards, -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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