RE: [gnome-db] MySQL client API is GPL, not LGPL

[Laurent Sansonetti <lrz gnome org>]

On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 18:51, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> > I guess some kind of plug-in system would be helpful. Then we could ship the
> > MySQL provider separately, under the GPL.
> > 
> that would still be "illegal", I guess, since it would still be linking,
> in some way or the other, unless we use an IPC mechanism, like CORBA or
> whatever for the MySQL provider.

I think an IPC solution is the best idea to completely resolve licensing
issues of providers in the future.

Thoughts about this (advantages, drawbacks, implementation issues..) ?

Cheers,

--
Laurent