I am looking in the MySQL 4 tarball. Exactly what license
document do
you mean? COPYING.LIB is still the LGPL.
COPYING.LIB is just a copy of the LGPL (I don't know why they include it since nothing references it AFAIK).
The web site says it is all under the GPL, right at the top of the download page at http://www.mysql.com/downloads/index.html. > The manual from 4.0.16 says:
All the `MySQL'-specific source in the server, the `mysqlclient' library and the client, as well as the `GNU' `readline' library is covered by the `GNU General Public License'.
Well, I think that's just because they are inept. I have asked them about that before, but I think they were too inept to understand the question. I find these pages more explicit:
http://www.mysql.com/products/mysql++/index.html http://www.mysql.com/documentation/mysql++/D_Copyright.html
I know that's talking about the C++ library, but it's hard to see how the C++ wrapper of a GPL library could be LGPL, or why they would do that.
If nothing has changed and no announcement has been made and nobody has asked them then I don't see a reason to think that the licensing has changed.
Murray Cumming www.murrayc.com murrayc@usa.net
On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 16:19:41 +0100, you wrote:
Well, I think that's just because they are inept. I have asked them about that before, but I think they were too inept to understand the question. I find these pages more explicit:
I know that's talking about the C++ library, but it's hard to see how the C++ wrapper of a GPL library could be LGPL, or why they would do that.
If you instead click on the tabs for the Java or ODBC libraries you see that they have changed from LGPL to GPL with the current versions. One could therefore assume if they update the C++ library that it will also have a change from LGPL to GPL.