[Fedora-legal-list] opinion on libmysqlclient derivatives work

Haïkel Guémar karlthered at gmail.com
Sun Jan 29 20:00:27 UTC 2012


Hi,

I noticed that many wrappers over libmysqlclient are distributed under
BSD 3c (or alike):
* dolphin-connector: BSD 3c
* soci-mysql: Boost
* poco-mysql: Boost

Though, the FOSS exception[1] applies, it may mislead users into
thinking that they can link proprietary softwares to these wrappers
though the FOSS exception states that all derivatives works should be
licensed under one of the approved licenses.
Should we request that the following packages changes their license
field into GPLv2 ? or at least state somewhere (description,
README.fedora ?) that any derivatives works are to be licensed under a
FOSS approved license ?

best regards,
H.


[1] http://www.mysql.fr/about/legal/licensing/foss-exception/



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