[std.database]

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Sun, 16 Oct 2011 02:13:05 -0400, Steve Teale  
<steve.teale at britseyeview.com> wrote:

> There's a discussion going on about Windows header files that has
> discussed whether header files can be copyright.
>
> Header files may be an issue with the database implementations. For
> example my mysql.d is a straight translation of mysql.h (and a couple of
> others). Does that mean it is tainted by GPL and I can't make it Boost?

A direct translation is a derivative work.  So yes, it must be GPL.

However, there must be ways around this.  I believe headers have certain  
rules in most licenses.

You will definitely need some sort of non-translated header though.  I'm  
not a license expert, so I don't know to what lengths you need to go to  
re-license the header.

However, what about mysql itself?  If the header is GPL, so is the  
library, no?  I'm assuming you are not reimplementing the mysql client  
lib?  Linking against a GPL library is definitely not going to be  
acceptable in a phobos module.

-Steve