Re: MySQL & ActiveRecord Licenses

Paul E. G. Lynch
2011-03-21T21:32:20Z

On Mar 21, 4:46 pm, Frederick Cheung
<frederick.che...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> On Mar 21, 8:05 pm, "Paul E. G. Lynch"
<plynch...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:

>
> That said, activerecord doesn''t link to any native libraries. If
you
> use the mysql adapter, that pulls in the mysql gem, which does
> obviously load the mysql library, but if you don''t use mysql then
that
> will never happen. Don''t ask me what the legal implications are!
>

You are right.  I should have been asking about the MySQL gem, instead
of ActiveRecord.  The MySQL gem is licensed under the Ruby license,
but links with the MySQL client libraries, and so (if I am correct)
should be GPL instead.  But, if that becomes GPL, then it would infect
ActiveRecord, and so we are back to my original question.  I would be
delighted to find that I am wrong about that.
  --Paul