Adriaan van Os wrote:
Frank Heckenbach wrote:
Yes, and when using 3.23.>=19 (and works based on it), the LGPL can still be used.
The MySQL units that initiated this thread, bear the following note:
Date: 2003-04-04
Welcome to the wonderful world of mysql.pas, a unit for accessing mysql.
Note, that this unit is for mysql version 4 and above only!
So, this is MySQL 4, not the three-year old MySQL 3.23.x.
OK, this is another version than the one I'm using. If it's infact based on MySQL 4 headers, using the LGPL would be wrong, Eike. If it was written without using MySQL 4 headers directly, it could be possible to use the LGPL, but it would in fact be useless, since a program that has to link to the MySQL 4 libraries would fall under the GPL anyway. So you can (and perhaps have to) use the GPL for the unit anyway.
or make the Pascal interface "uncopyrighted"(*) as you suggested;
Read the thread. I said "except as needed to respect the original works".
You said: : With all respect for the GPL and the LGPL, I would : argue strongly that Pascal interface files be left uncopyrighted. Frank -- Frank Heckenbach, frank@g-n-u.de, http://fjf.gnu.de/, 7977168E GPC To-Do list, latest features, fixed bugs: http://www.gnu-pascal.de/todo.html GPC download signing key: 51FF C1F0 1A77 C6C2 4482 4DDC 117A 9773 7F88 1707