On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 12:09 PM, Tomas Radej <tradej@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > If I am not mistaken (which I easily may be, so anyone is free to tear > this mail to shreds), the FSF's stance is that yes, this consitutes a > derivative work and henceforth, you are required to use GPLv2 or later as > well. One of the reasons I ask is that Django is importing the MySQLdb module [1], and Django itself is under the MIT license. If the Python MySQL module will force any dependency to be GPLv2, that could have big implications for the Django stack. At work my organization is trying to release as open-source a Django web app that uses MySQL, so I am trying to understand what the license must be. Here's an email from the MySQLdb author that states the GPL would not extend to cover the web application itself [2] - Ken [1] https://github.com/django/django/blob/master/django/db/backends/mysql/base.py [2] http://sourceforge.net/p/mysql-python/discussion/70460/thread/9ae42ab5/ _______________________________________________ legal mailing list legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/legal
