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hholzgra / connector-c-examples

MySQL/MariaDB C API examples
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MIT license? #2

Open ompadu opened 5 years ago

ompadu commented 5 years ago

For learning resources such as examples maybe a very permissive license such as MIT would be a better fit?

hholzgra commented 5 years ago

At the time I started this the MySQL Client Library was under GPL, so choosing the same license was the obvious choice.

The MySQL Client library used to be LGPL until it switched to GPL with MySQL 4.0.

Now that we have a LGPL alternative witht he MariaDB client library again, based on last LGPL version from MySQL 3.23, switching the projects license to LGPL, too, would be an option though ...

ompadu commented 5 years ago

As far I can tell at a glance you're only linking to the mariadb connector not extening it. In this case, as far as I know LGPL isn't viral, meaning that people don't have to distribute their code under the same license as with the GPL.