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

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 16:22, Laurent Sansonetti wrote:
> 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
> 
but it did, all versions from 0.0 to 0.2.96 were based on CORBA. The
0.8.x series saw the CORBA dependency removed.

cheers