Other people have answered your question from a technical
perspective,
but also be aware that linking with the MySQL client library may
impose licensing requirements (i.e. require you to GPL your
application).
Not completely true. MySQL has added an exception for some other
opensource licences, even if incompatible with the GPL.
-- Finlay
This is an interesting point.
My app is a commercial product - and would assume that the user
will be connecting to MySQL pre-installed on Mac OSX Server (which
presumably Apple have a license for ?)
Apple uses the GPL as licence.
I guess an option would be to create and open source an
intermediate daemon application to run alongside my commercial app
interfacing a generic query from my app with the MySQL C-library.
Does anyone know if this type of thing exists already ?
Apache and php... Notice that you're entering a gray area with
regards to what constitutes linking and what is application i/o. If
it is an opensource application but it's pretty much useless to
everything but your commercial one I believe the FSF considers that
to be linking even if there's no sharing of address space.
--
Pelle Johansson
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