MySQL client libraries licensing (was Fedora Core 2 wishlists)

[Alan Cox]

On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 10:57:11AM -0800, Adam Debus wrote:
>     As it has been explined to me by a lawyer: That's only true if you are
> embedding the mysql library in your software (statically linking). Merely
> using MySQL as a database for PHP does not tie you to either license because
> you are not embedding code from either program.

You are embedding the client library and a derivative work of it. The core
dbase has always been GPL which isnt a problem, now the client libraries
are

>     The same goes for Perl or C/C++. Writing code that utilizes the language
> does not automatically tie you to the license the programming language uses,
> unless you statically link against the libraries.

If you call functions provided by the interpreter ...

>     Otherwise, pretty much nothing in Linux would be other then GPL, since
> that's what glibc is licensed under, including PHP, Perl and Apache, all of
> which have licenses other then GPL.

glibc has specific statements to cover linking for apps. Guess why