[libreoffice-users] Re: MySQL Native Connector

Le 17/09/11 21:43, Andreas Säger a écrit :


Hi Andreas,

> As far as I know, it is shipped with LibreOffice.
> Choose database type MySQL instead of JDBC or ODBC.

It is neither built nor shipped by the LibreOffice project. It is
shipped with various Linux distributions, who include it in their
extensions build setup. Why, well firstly because no one gives a damn,
and second, to build the connector you have to rely on the mysql C
connector library (even if you use mysql C++ library) and that library
is GPL2, which means that the connector that links to it has to be
released under the GPL (this is in fact what Sun did with the native
connector extension). The LibO project releases under the LGPL/MPL and
not the GPL.

At the moment, the OOo mysql native connector is available for download
from here :

http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/en/project/mysql_connector

My advice, get it while you can and keep a copy near to hand.

How long that will remain the case now that this site is to integrated
into the ApacheOOo project remains to be seen, because Apache can not
accept GPLed code into its projects.

I have built the native connector for MacOSX and put it on the
LibreOffice extensions site, but as far as I know, no one has built it
for Windows or Linux (on Linux the question is mostly irrelevant because
the distribs provide it in most cases, however, that does mean you are
tied to the distrib version of LibreOffice).


Alex




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