[OpenStack-Infra] mysqlconnector and pypi vs oracle

Angus Lees guslees at gmail.com
Sat Jul 12 06:17:54 UTC 2014


Yep, mysql-connector-python is GPL (v2 afaict).

I just need a way to get it installed on the test machines, and I'm hoping
we aren't going to founder on such a technically-trivial step.  What are
our options here?


On 12 July 2014 15:43, Monty Taylor <mordred at inaugust.com> wrote:

> No. Same license.
>
> On Jul 11, 2014 10:23 PM, Robert Collins <robertc at robertcollins.net>
> wrote:
> >
> > Won't the licence be a problem?
> >
> > On 12 Jul 2014 05:59, "Angus Lees" <guslees at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> I'd like to switch to using mysqlconnector rather than mysqldb as our
> default mysql/sqlalchemy driver.  The discussions behind this are underway
> on os-dev and other avenues.
> >>
> >> My question here is regarding the simple mechanics of getting
> mysql-connector installed on the test machines.  I don't know much about
> how these are set up, but I gather it's an issue that mysql-connector is an
> external pypi library.
> >>
> >> Given that mysql-connector is shipped by the official mysql devs (ie:
> Oracle), I'm not much looking forward to convincing Oracle to ship their
> software through another repo.   How important is this?  Do we have other
> avenues available to us?
> >>
> >> --
> >>  - Gus
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 - Gus
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