Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: >http://www.mysql.com/products/licensing/foss-exception.html > >A few programs link currently the old non-GPL libmysqlclient10 in order >to retain compatibility with other free licenses which have known >problems and require exceptions (e.g. openssl). AFAIK the new >statement should allow all those program to link the current >libmysqlclient instead. See proftpd-mysql for an example of such kind >of programs. > >Comments? > > > I think their exception is to allow free software to continue to use the GPL version of MySQL software. They are doing this instead of reverting back to LGPL because they want to get $$$ for licensing client libraries for commercial software. I think MySQL will allow any free license to link with GPL MySQL, but I would still ask MySQL AB if a license not listed is still allowed. - Adam -- Building your applications one byte at a time http://www.galacticasoftware.com
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