Non GPL Python MySQL Client Library.

Ville Vainio ville at spammers.com
Thu Jul 1 11:58:29 EDT 2004


>>>>> "Lothar" == Lothar Scholz <dummy at scriptolutions.com> writes:

    Lothar> driver. In the Ruby world there exist a small but working
    Lothar> pure ruby library that can be used without buying a
    Lothar> license or putting your application under the GPL.

    Lothar> Is there anything like this in the Python world ?

Why don't you do it yourself?

Create a trivial python server process that executes all the python
commands it receives from a TCP socket, and sends back the result as a
pickle over the same socket. The MySql client library is then
dynamically linked with the server process only, so only the server
process is infected by GPL.

Kinda sucks for large objects, but for some purposes it ought to be
enough.

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