Re: AW: MySQL 4.0 license change

hi,

This is becoming quite a headache, i did some reading on this today and 
their (mysql's) bottom line is if you are a company or a goverment 
that's not developing open source software you should get a commercial 
licence. 

in one of the threads i read they suggested that fork is what we should use!

hope this helps.



Jörg Pommnitz wrote:

>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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