AW: MySQL 4.0 license change

Jörg Pommnitz <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mobile.kannel.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
Can one circumvent the viral nature of the GPL by using the
dlopen functions?

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: Paul Keogh [mailto:[email protected]]
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 21. Januar 2004 11:13
An: Kannel Development List (E-mail) (Kannel Development List (E-mail))
Betreff: MySQL 4.0 license change



The license for the MySQL 4.0 client API has changed from LGPL to GPL.

See

http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/01/16/03OPstrategic_1.html?developme
nt

for full details.

I guess this affects Kannel - my understanding is that linking GPL
libraries
under the current Kannel license is not possible. Am I correct ?
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