Re: [stellation-res] MySQL news: [Fwd: Re: The license change on Connect

["Mark C. Chu-Carroll" <mcc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 2002-11-03 at 10:15, Dave Shields wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 10:04:46AM -0500, Mark C. Chu-Carroll wrote:
> > I got a reply from the author of ConnectorJ, which is
> > the current version of the JDBC driver for MySQL. I've
> > attached the reply below.
> > 
> > To summarize: they do arrange different licensing terms
> > for open-source projects that have legal trouble with
> > GPL.  They gave me the name of the person in charge
> > of such arrangements, and forwarded my note on to him.
> > 
> > So I'll discuss it with them, and run whatever we
> > can arrange by IBMs lawyers. It sounds like there's
> > a fair change we'll be able to arrange a Stellation
> > license for ConnectorJ that will allow us to use it.
> > 
> 
> > Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2002 22:47:18 -0600
> > From: Mark Matthews <mark@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Subject: Re: The license change on ConnectorJ
> > To: "Mark C. Chu-Carroll" <mcc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: David Axmark <david@xxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > Mark C. Chu-Carroll wrote:
> > [snip]
> > > I understand that there are a lot of reasons for choosing
> > > a license; I had 7 months of meetings with lawyers discussing
> > > things like licenses before we released the first version
> > > of Stellation. But I thought it would be reasona

> ble to drop
> > > you a polite note, to let you know that the licensing change
> > > makes it effectively impossible for a small open-source
> > > project like us to support MySQL. 
> > > 
> 
> Though Stellation may be a "small" open-source project, Eclipse is a "large"
> one, and (probably restating the obvious) I believe we should not take any action
> that would result in a license applicable only to the Stellation project that
> would in any way limit the use of our code by other Eclipse projects, as well 
> as other code licensed under CPL.


I think we should see what they're willing to do before we
make any decisions. I'll talk to their contact person, and
see what kind of license they're willing to give us. Then
I'll take that to the Technology PMC, and let them make
a decision about whether or not we can accept it. If
the Technology PMC is willing to agree to a deal that
lets us support MySQL, I think we'd be silly to refuse
it. 

	-Mark

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