[Asterisk-Users] RE: Asterisk license (fwd)

[Steven Critchfield]

On Fri, 2003-09-26 at 17:50, Mark Spencer wrote:
> Just FYI, MySQL stuff has been pulled from Asterisk since apparently now
> the client libraries are under GPL and not LGPL (and thus are incompatible
> with OpenH323).  You may check out the MySQL code under "asterisk-addons",
> but you should not use both MySQL and OpenH323 (OpenSSL is also
> questionable) in the same Asterisk installation unless you downgrade your
> MySQL client libraries to a version that is before they GPL'd it.
> 
> Sorry for the added inconvenience.  I'm including the message from MySQL
> if any of you would like to try to encourage them to LGPL their client
> library again.  Thanks!

hmmm, Maybe this would be a good reason to step up to a postgres
database for those apps since postgres is a BSD license, or at least
that is what is in my copyright file in debian for postgres.
-- 
Steven Critchfield <critch at basesys.com>