On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 12:09 PM, Tomas Radej <tradej(a)redhat.com> wrote:
If I am not mistaken (which I easily may be, so anyone is free to
tear
this mail to shreds), the FSF's stance is that yes, this consitutes a
derivative work and henceforth, you are required to use GPLv2 or later as
well.
One of the reasons I ask is that Django is importing the MySQLdb
module [1], and Django itself is under the MIT license. If the Python
MySQL module will force any dependency to be GPLv2, that could have
big implications for the Django stack.
At work my organization is trying to release as open-source a Django
web app that uses MySQL, so I am trying to understand what the license
must be.
Here's an email from the MySQLdb author that states the GPL would not
extend to cover the web application itself [2]
- Ken
[1]
https://github.com/django/django/blob/master/django/db/backends/mysql/bas...
[2]
http://sourceforge.net/p/mysql-python/discussion/70460/thread/9ae42ab5/