Non GPL Python MySQL Client Library.

[Harry George]

Christopher T King <squirrel at WPI.EDU> writes:

> On Mon, 28 Jun 2004, Lothar Scholz wrote:
> 
> > Hello i want to write a commerical small tool that must access a MySQL
> > database but i can't afford the License Fee for the original MySQL
> > driver. In the Ruby world there exist a small but working pure ruby
> > library that can be used without buying a license or putting your
> > application under the GPL. 
> > 
> > Is there anything like this in the Python world ?
> 
> Libraries licensed under the GPL can be used without GPLing the code that 
> uses them - you only have to GPL any extensions you make to the library. 
> Assuming that works for you, you can use (GPLed) mysql-python:
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/mysql-python/
> 

Also note that the extensions have to be separate chunks of code, not
just derivatives of the original:

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