From: Warren Young Date: May 22 2008 9:50pm Subject: Re: license question List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/plusplus/7665 Message-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v919.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On May 22, 2008, at 1:52 PM, support wrote: > I'm evaluating mysql++ and I would like to create a closed source app > using it. Likely it would stay in house but we need to be able to > distribute it in the future if we should decide to do so. As long as > we > link dynamically, this is possible, correct? IANAL, and I don't speak for any other entity, not even the company I work for. My informed opinion is, "yes". :) > Can we distribute the mysql++ .dll/.so binary with our application? Yes, as long as you're willing to provide the source code that produced that DLL to anyone who asks. The exact terms of this requirement are spelled out in the LGPL. > Same question for the mysql C api .dll/.so..? The MySQL C API is under the GPL, not the LGPL, so it doesn't matter how you link: your app falls under the GPL unless you buy a commercial redistribution license from MySQL, Inc.