MySQL FLOSS License Exception updated

Long time no blogging! I hope PlanetMySQL finally picks up my posts again, I really miss the additional audience

We recently received a request from the OpenISR project about adding the Eclipse public license to our FLOSS License Exception. As it turns out, it is almost identical to the Common Public License (CPL), which was already included in the exception. So the decision was fairly easy - version 0.6 of the FLOSS License Exception now also covers the Eclipse public license.

What is the FLOSS License exception all about anyway? Our intent:

We want specified Free/Libre and Open Source Software applications to be able to use specified GPL-licensed MySQL client libraries despite the fact that not all FLOSS licenses are compatible with version 2 of the GNU General Public License.

In other words, we want to make it possible for more non-GPL applications that are licensed under any of the listed OSI-approved licenses to link against the MySQL client libraries. The term exception may be misleading here, what it really does is widen the scope of the client license and make it more compatible to applications that are not under the GPL.