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It's really been a while since the last post of mine regarding this topic :) Just for information (perhaps someone has the same problem for me as I was two months ago :D), in the source of winMyLib I also put an additional driver and a lil modification to ZDbcMySql.pas and ZPlainMySqlDriver.pas to r...

In response to my topic in here , I've made a MIT-licensed app named winMyLib whose job is to "install" libmysql.dll and write a registry value of where this libmysql.dll located. winMyLib is also capable of detecting all potentially "would-be-loaded" libmysql.dll by iterating th...

I see the bright light now, thx a lot all of you

Hi coolkid, it's just like Mark wrote: regarding your commercial application that uses ZeosLib for database connection and stuff, everything is fine. The point regarding mySQL is: You either have to sell a license to your customer bundled with your software or: Your customer already has a legal lic...

@mdaems: Summarizing what I understand from your post, is that I can avoid violating libmysql.dll license if I: 1. Do not include the libmysql.dll in my app installation; instead.. 2. Make a "libmysql.dll installer" or something which is GPLed so other apps in the user's machine can use th...

It seems this question has not been asked before. One thing that keeps bugging me when I develop a DB app is the legal issue of libmysql.dll. AFAIK, the license of libmysql.dll forced the developer to buy it if he/she wants to use libmysql in commercial app. That's why I always stick around with MyO...