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[Maarten Vanraes <alien@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Op donderdag 29 december 2011 10:21:35 schreef Maarten Vanraes:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm a packager for mageia, and i'm working to get branch 5.5 submitted on
> our system, replacing mysql.
> 
> However, we have readline v6 on mageia, which is GPLv3, and serg added the
> NOT_FOR_DISTRIBUTION variable, which makes it build a bundled readline v5.
> well, it builds for us too, but later i get a conflict situation on our
> system between mariadb-common and mariadb-client (i didn't look deep into
> it).
> 
> but normally we try to use as much system shared libraries as possible,
> also, what about security fixes + bug fixes in this bundled readline v5,
> etc... i donno how long v5 will be maintained by gnu, this is not an ideal
> situation.
> 
> i've checked and noted that mariadb server is GPLv2only and mariadb client
> has a FLOSS exception... which doesn't mention GPLv3
> 
> so i'm a bit at a loss here, ideally we want to use system shared readline
> v6 on our distribution...
> 
> it's a bit of a PITA for me, tbh, i mean, it's all open source, i don't
> really get why this is all so difficult... :-(
> 
> I guess the easiest way for us is if mariadb was GPLv2+ we could go ahead
> and use readline v6.
> 
> I guess i'm asking for a way to proceed for us.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> AL13N

I don't know if this is related or not, but i found this text: 
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E17952_01/refman-5.1-en/license-gnu-readline.html

i note the "or later" in this text.

does this mean that the GPLv2 license is also a GPLv2+ license for mysql?