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

[Laurent Sansonetti <lrz gnome org>]

On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 12:22, Adam Williams 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..) ?
> 
> Didn't GDA providers used to use CORBA?

I don't think so.  

Currently libgda has a few dependencies (AFAIK glib, libxml and
libxslt).

It doesn't depend of GNOME

Cheers,

--
Laurent