Non GPL Python MySQL Client Library.

[David Fraser]

Christopher T King wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Jun 2004, Lothar Scholz wrote:
> 
> 
>>Hello i want to write a commerical small tool that must access a MySQL
>>database but i can't afford the License Fee for the original MySQL
>>driver. In the Ruby world there exist a small but working pure ruby
>>library that can be used without buying a license or putting your
>>application under the GPL. 
>>
>>Is there anything like this in the Python world ?
> 
> 
> Libraries licensed under the GPL can be used without GPLing the code that 
> uses them - you only have to GPL any extensions you make to the library. 
> Assuming that works for you, you can use (GPLed) mysql-python:
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/mysql-python/
> 

I would take this advice with caution, I don't think it's true ... the 
GPL generally implies that applications that use libraries are 
derivative works. It depends how you define terms, but read the full 
text of the GPL to make your own decision...

I think the story with mysql is that their libraries to connect *used* 
to be LGPL (which the above statement would have been true about) but 
they changed the license. You could always try and get hold of the old 
version and adapt it to work with the latest mysql :-)

David