Comments on: MySQL Protocol Licensing http://blog.toadhead.net/index.php/2007/03/29/mysql-protocol-licensing/ Mike Heath's Blog Thu, 10 Nov 2011 18:05:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 By: RR http://blog.toadhead.net/index.php/2007/03/29/mysql-protocol-licensing/#comment-111 RR Tue, 10 Apr 2007 21:54:34 +0000 http://swamp.homelinux.net/blog/index.php/2007/03/29/mysql-protocol-licensing/#comment-111 Sounds a little vague to me. I'm the analyzing mood. Sounds a little vague to me. I’m the analyzing mood.

]]> By: mheath http://blog.toadhead.net/index.php/2007/03/29/mysql-protocol-licensing/#comment-91 mheath Fri, 06 Apr 2007 17:05:06 +0000 http://swamp.homelinux.net/blog/index.php/2007/03/29/mysql-protocol-licensing/#comment-91 Here's the link to the message I posted at Apache Legal. http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-legal-discuss/200704.mbox/%3c45a054f50704051721o5c584dfcvfaa258ff7ee7f0c8@mail.gmail.com%3e I received a reply not posted to the mailing list indicating I should find someone to do extensive analysis of the code and publish that analysis and then build my driver off of the analysis. This would keep my from becoming tainted by the MySQL code. This seams like a decent approach. Now I just need to find someone to either do the analysis or I'll do the analysis and someone else will have to write the driver for Apache. It still doesn't change the fact the MySQL AB is claiming that by reading their manual, you have to license your code under the GPL which I still don't think is valid. Here’s the link to the message I posted at Apache Legal.

http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-legal-discuss/200704.mbox/%3c45a054f50704051721o5c584dfcvfaa258ff7ee7f0c8@mail.gmail.com%3e

I received a reply not posted to the mailing list indicating I should find someone to do extensive analysis of the code and publish that analysis and then build my driver off of the analysis. This would keep my from becoming tainted by the MySQL code. This seams like a decent approach. Now I just need to find someone to either do the analysis or I’ll do the analysis and someone else will have to write the driver for Apache.

It still doesn’t change the fact the MySQL AB is claiming that by reading their manual, you have to license your code under the GPL which I still don’t think is valid.

]]> By: mheath http://blog.toadhead.net/index.php/2007/03/29/mysql-protocol-licensing/#comment-90 mheath Thu, 05 Apr 2007 17:30:41 +0000 http://swamp.homelinux.net/blog/index.php/2007/03/29/mysql-protocol-licensing/#comment-90 It looks like someone already asked a similar question to the Apache Legal Discuss mailing list http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-legal-discuss/200602.mbox/%3c200602091613.14785.niq@apache.org%3e but did not get any replies to their posting. It looks like someone already asked a similar question to the Apache Legal Discuss mailing list http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-legal-discuss/200602.mbox/%3c200602091613.14785.niq@apache.org%3e but did not get any replies to their posting.

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