Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: MySQL Native Connector

Hi Alex,
As I have already mentioned in an earlier posting - I downloaded the
connector from the site you mention. However, trying to then install/activate
it in my LO 3.4.3 system fails.
Heinrich

On Sun, 18 Sep 2011 16:28:03 +0200, Alexander Thurgood <alex.thurgood@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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