asterisk and mysql_cdr

[Mark Purcell]

I think you are basically correct. But it might be worth discussing on
Debian-legal.

I think there is also an issue with using non-GPL libraries such as
openh323 and mysql within the same application. Per the
asterisk-doc/README.mysql.

Mark


MYSQL LICENSING UPDATE
======================
We were recently contacted by MySQL and informed that the MySQL client 
libraries are now under GPL license and not LGPL license as before.  

Since Asterisk does allow exceptions to GPL, we are removing MySQL support 
from standard Asterisk.  We will, where appropriate, make it available via 
a separate package which will only be usable when Asterisk is used completely
within GPL (i.e. not in conjunction with G.729, OpenH.323, etc).  We 
apologize for the confusion.

You may find this in the new "asterisk-addons" package.

Mark Spencer
Digium

On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 02:25:13PM +0200, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I'm not sure I understand this so I'll ask here:
> Is there a legal issue with adding cdr_mysql support to the Debian
> Asterisk package?
> 
> Please corrent me if I'm wrong here:
> 
> - Asterisk may be distributed under the terms of the GPL or under the
> 	terms of a modified-GPL: the GPL with some provisions to allow a
> 	number of libraries to be linked with it.
> 
> - One of those libraries is openh323, whose license is MPL (incompatible
> 	wit hthe GPL)
> 
> - Thus if I want to link with openh323 I need to have asterisk licensed
> 	with the modified GPL (or an alternative license from Digium, which is
> 	not an option here)
> 
> - the mysql client libraries are licensed under the terms of the GPL.
> 	Thus it is illegal to link asterisk with a modified-GPL license to
> 	together with mysql client libraries.
> 
> Hopefully I'm wrong somewhere...
> 
> -- 
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