On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, Daniel A. Koepke wrote:
>On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, Patrick Dughi wrote:
>
>> This is in regard to a discussion from a while ago, that I
>> can't even remember.... May have some info for those of you who'd
>> like to create patches, etc, and need to link in GPL'ed software.
>>
>> In brief, 'no you can't *hits you with a stick*'.
>
>Mr. Turner is wrong. Maybe the FSF really intends the GPL to restrict
>this kind of thing, but he's dead wrong if he thinks it can. An interface
>cannot be copyrighted. If you write the code that is making use of the
>interface, the code belongs to you. MySQL can copyright its code and its
>documentation. That doesn't mean they have any rights whatsoever to your
>use of their interface, even if you distribute it.
From /usr/share/doc/mysql/manual.txt:
- You do not need a license to include the client code in commercial
programs. The client part of *MySQL* licensed with the LGPL `GNU
Library General Public License'. The `mysql' command-line client
includes code from the `readline' library that is under the `GPL'.
Daniel's right too. Otherwise we'd all be subject to the Sun Solaris
kernel license whenever we compiled a program on that platform.
--
George Greer
greerga@circlemud.org
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