[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 138949] LO VANILLA - ODB file open fails to create a connection to a mysql instance over the mysql native connector

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=138949

--- Comment #8 from Lionel Elie Mamane <lionel at mamane.lu> ---
(In reply to Michael Meeks from comment #6)
> AFAIR the Mysql connector library is not helpfully licensed, and so not
> compiled in.
> 
> connectivity/source/drivers/mysqlc/mysqlc_general.h:
> 
> #include <config_lgpl.h>
> 
> I forget what we did to try to address that; it's possible that the code was
> re-written to target the mariadb C library directly

Yes, it was.

So we switched from dependency on a GPL (+ exceptions) library (the MySQL C++
connector) to a dependency on an LGPL library only (the MariaDB C library). Is
LGPL not allowed in the Collabora builds?

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