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GPL infrastructure software

GPL infrastructure software

Posted Jan 4, 2010 9:30 UTC (Mon) by mjw (subscriber, #16740)
In reply to: GPL infrastructure software by anselm
Parent article: The ongoing MySQL campaign

No need to come up with your own replacement, Sun already distributes libmysqlclient under the LGPLv3 as part of OpenOffice:
http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/mysql_c...

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GPL infrastructure software

Posted Jan 7, 2010 16:54 UTC (Thu) by vonbrand (subscriber, #4458) [Link]

Futzing around I came to the MySQL Connector for OOo page, which states that this is LGPLv3 but runs on top of MySQL Connector/C++, which is GPLv2 with FLOSS exception. AFAIU, this still means that you can't use this from non-FLOSS software.


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