Future of MySQL Connector Extension

[Alexander Thurgood <al...@gmail.com>]

Hi all,

Does anyone have any idea what the future of this extension is going to
be ? At the moment, it appears that the library used to build the
connector is under GPL2, which is not compatible with the Apache licence.

The connector was previously built and delivered from within the OOo
source tree at each new version, and my understanding was that it was OS
specific, i.e. a version had to be offered for download for each of the
OSes to which OOo catered. So how will that now work within the new
Apache scheme of things ?

Does it mean that the connector extension can/will only be available as
a compile time option, i.e. it will not be generally available for
download by users (like the "PDF Import" extension) ? Or can/must it be
compiled by someone else and hosted elsewhere ?

As someone interested in the use of the connector for my daily work, it
would be nice to have some kind of "official"
stance/declaration/feedback on this.

TIA,

Alex

Re: Future of MySQL Connector Extension

[Damjan Jovanovic <da...@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 7:17 AM, Alexander Thurgood
<al...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Le 23/07/11 06:29, Pedro Giffuni a écrit :
>
> Hi Pedro,
>>
>> We won't ship GPL stuff directly, but note that whomever distributes
>> binaries for your system can.
>> In other words, both options that you mention are possible.
>
> Therein lies the rub. Who would do that for MacOSX ? Certainly not
> Apple. And certainly not MS for Windows OS. Again, we come back to the
> question of who will be hosting/providing the binaries. If Apache can
> not / will not due to licensing issues, then who will do it for these OSes ?

Fink/MacPorts?

Maybe we should provide the option of downloading the MySQL connector
on-demand instead of distributing it with OO.o? AFAIK that works
around the GPL.

Damjan

Re: Future of MySQL Connector Extension

[Alexander Thurgood <al...@gmail.com>]

Le 23/07/11 06:29, Pedro Giffuni a écrit :

Hi Pedro,
> 
> We won't ship GPL stuff directly, but note that whomever distributes
> binaries for your system can.
> In other words, both options that you mention are possible.

Therein lies the rub. Who would do that for MacOSX ? Certainly not
Apple. And certainly not MS for Windows OS. Again, we come back to the
question of who will be hosting/providing the binaries. If Apache can
not / will not due to licensing issues, then who will do it for these OSes ?

For the Linux distros, each distro already usually provides the
connector anyway, so effectively it is moot for that OS, and if you are
using BSD, or Gentoo, most of it is self-compiled/built/emerged (or not,
as the case may be).


Alex

Re: Future of MySQL Connector Extension

[Pedro Giffuni <gi...@tutopia.com>]

 Hi,

 We won't ship GPL stuff directly, but note that whomever distributes 
 binaries for your system can.
 In other words, both options that you mention are possible.

 Cheers,

 Pedro.

 On Sat, 23 Jul 2011 05:23:50 +0200, Alexander Thurgood 
 <al...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Does anyone have any idea what the future of this extension is going 
> to
> be ? At the moment, it appears that the library used to build the
> connector is under GPL2, which is not compatible with the Apache 
> licence.
>
> The connector was previously built and delivered from within the OOo
> source tree at each new version, and my understanding was that it was 
> OS
> specific, i.e. a version had to be offered for download for each of 
> the
> OSes to which OOo catered. So how will that now work within the new
> Apache scheme of things ?
>
> Does it mean that the connector extension can/will only be available 
> as
> a compile time option, i.e. it will not be generally available for
> download by users (like the "PDF Import" extension) ? Or can/must it 
> be
> compiled by someone else and hosted elsewhere ?
>
> As someone interested in the use of the connector for my daily work, 
> it
> would be nice to have some kind of "official"
> stance/declaration/feedback on this.
>
> TIA,
>
> Alex