Re: Please recompile packages against libmysqlclient12.
- To: Sander Smeenk <ssmeenk@freshdot.net>
- Cc: Marek Habersack <grendel@debian.org>, Steve Langasek <vorlon@netexpress.net>, Christian Hammers <ch@debian.org>, Adam Conrad <adconrad@0c3.net>, Adam Klein <aklein@debian.org>, Akira TAGOH <tagoh@debian.org>, Andreas Rottmann <rotty@debian.org>, Andrew Stribblehill <ads@debian.org>, Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@debian.org>, Bradley Marshall <bmarshal@pisoftware.com>, Brian Nelson <pyro@debian.org>, Craig Small <csmall@debian.org>, Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>, "David N. Welton" <davidw@debian.org>, David Parker <david@neongoat.com>, Debian QA Group <packages@qa.debian.org>, Dima Barsky <dima@debian.org>, "Florian M. Weps" <fmw@debian.org>, Francesco Paolo Lovergine <frankie@debian.org>, Francois Marier <fmarier@uwaterloo.ca>, Fredrik Hallenberg <hallon@debian.org>, Gregor Hoffleit <flight@debian.org>, Grzegorz Prokopski <greg@sente.pl>, Guillaume Morin <gemorin@debian.org>, Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org>, Hidetaka Iwai <tyuyu@debian.or.jp>, "Ivan E. Moore II" <rkrusty@debian.org>, James Troup <james@nocrew.org>, Jan-Hendrik Palic <jan.palic@linux-debian.de>, Joerg Wendland <joergland@debian.org>, Kevin Dalley <kevind@rahul.net>, "Kevin M. Rosenberg" <kmr@debian.org>, Klaus Reimer <kay@debian.org>, LaMont Jones <lamont@debian.org>, Luigi Gangitano <luigi@debian.org>, Marco Nenciarini <mnencia@debian.org>, Marco Presi <zufus@debian.org>, Martin Loschwitz <madkiss@debian.org>, Martin Mitchell <martin@debian.org>, Matt Sullivan <aspseek@sullivan.gen.nz>, Matthew Palmer <mpalmer@debian.org>, Nick Phillips <nwp@lemon-computing.com>, Paul Hedderly <prh@debian.org>, Pawel Wiecek <coven@debian.org>, Petr Cech <cech@debian.org>, Simon Horman <horms@vergenet.net>, Stefan Hornburg <racke@linuxia.de>, Stephan A Suerken <absurd@debian.org>, Stephen Zander <gibreel@debian.org>, Turbo Fredriksson <turbo@debian.org>
- Subject: Re: Please recompile packages against libmysqlclient12.
- From: Wichert Akkerman <wichert@wiggy.net>
- Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 13:30:26 +0200
- Message-id: <[🔎] 20030414113026.GX22272@wiggy.net>
- In-reply-to: <[🔎] 20030414112528.GU11799@freshdot.net>
- References: <[🔎] 20030412104545.GA17489@app109.hitnet.rwth-aachen.de> <[🔎] 20030412173919.GB12792@quetzlcoatl.dodds.net> <[🔎] 20030412190635.GA30533@wiggy.net> <[🔎] 20030412201646.GA1487@thanes.org> <[🔎] 20030414111854.GV22272@wiggy.net> <[🔎] 20030414112528.GU11799@freshdot.net>
Previously Sander Smeenk wrote:
> So, what *am* I supposed to do? Rebuild against libmysqlclient12
> and break licenses? Not rebuild and have an uninstallable snort-mysql?
The only viable approaches seem to be (in random order)
* fork libmysqlclient
* convince the MySQL folks to revert their license change
* switch to postgres
* get upstream developers to add a clause to their license to permit
linking to OpenSSL or move to GnuTLS (only an option if your
application has an GPL compatible license)
Wichert.
--
Wichert Akkerman <wichert@wiggy.net> http://www.wiggy.net/
A random hacker
Reply to: