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

[costas]

Is MySQL a requirement for Asterisk? What are the alternatives? How much of its features does it need? I was reading somewhere not too long ago about a product called either miniSQL or tinySQL. 

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Mark Spencer <markster at digium.com>
Reply-To: asterisk-dev at lists.digium.com
Date:  Fri, 26 Sep 2003 17:50:58 -0500 (CDT)

>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!
>
>Mark
>
>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 14:02:50 -0700
>From: Gerardo Narvaja <gerardo at mysql.com>
>To: 'Mark Spencer' <markster at digium.com>
>Subject: RE: Asterisk license
>
>Dear Mark,
>
>About a year ago we switched the client libraries from LGPL to GPL or
>commercial license. So for your GPL version you should be OK, for the
>non GPL version I can put you in touch with the proper rep to discuss
>the possibilities.
>
>Best regards,
>
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>
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>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Mark Spencer [mailto:markster at digium.com]
>> Sent: Friday, 26 September, 2003 12:44
>> To: Gerardo Narvaja
>> Subject: Re: Asterisk license
>>
>> > I learned about Asterisk through a prospect. My name is Gerardo
>> > Narvaja and I work for MySQL. As you probably know, MySQL is
>> > distributed under a dual license mode: GPL and commercial license.
>> It
>> > is not clear which license does Asterisk use, but I would
>> recommend
>> > you abide by the GPL. You will find the complete GPL text and FAQ
>> at
>> > http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html. I make this recommendation
>> > because not all Open Source licenses are compatible with our
>> policies
>> > and it doesn't look like you favor any other license in
>> particular.
>> > This license also makes sure that if anyone creates another
>> software
>> > product based on Asterisk, it remains Open Source.
>>
>> We also dual license Asterisk under GPL and commercial license.
>> However,
>> we do not link to mysql, except for the mysql client libraries which
>> I
>> believe are public domain, correct?
>>
>> Mark
>
>
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