[Mono-list] Recommended MySQL Data Provider?

[Alexandre Miguel Pedro Gomes]

Please take a look at:
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#IfLibraryIsGPL

It states:
«*If a library is released under the GPL (not the LGPL), does that mean that
any program which uses it has to be under the
GPL?<http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#TOCIfLibraryIsGPL>
*  Yes, because the program as it is actually run includes the library.» So,
I guess I was and I am right.

If I remember right, there is something called FLOSS (or very similar) in
MySql license that allows you to release your application (the one linking
to a MySql licensed library) under a license compatible to GPL *and*
approved by that FLOSS. Not sure what that means but I assume that you can
do a LGPL library that used .net connector, thus allowing other to link to
your app with any other license, including closed-source.

There is a workaround that I was told to work well - to make sure your app
works with other providers, like postgres, sqlserver, access, etc.... and
load the provider dynamically, that is, as an addin (using a xml file and
reflection....). Again, I'm not sure this works, but I believe so.

On 11/6/05, Alexandre Miguel Pedro Gomes <alexmipego at gmail.com> wrote:
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Jay Bennie <jay at lincore.co.uk>
> Date: Nov 6, 2005 8:44 AM
> Subject: Re: [Mono-list] Recommended MySQL Data Provider?
> To: Alexandre Miguel Pedro Gomes <alexmipego at gmail.com>
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> Alexandre Miguel Pedro Gomes wrote:
> > By using the official MySql .Net Connector you are making your
> > application GPL, unless you buy a commercial license.
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> > Just a warning :)
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> no you are not! this is a common misinterpretation of GPL
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> if your application extends and modifies the Mysql .net connector then
> that extention become GPL not the whole application
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> simpy using the GPL code does not make your application GPL.
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> Alexandre Gomes, Portugal




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