GPL-licensed dependencies

[k-dub]

I'm really new to these open-source licenses and all that legal crap, but I just ran into an issue with the MySQL connectors being GPL instead of LGPL.

My question is: can a LGPL application link to and distribute a GPL library? I pose this question here because the MySQL Connector/J is distributed with Nukes, which I use as my web site.

[chasetec]

All the nukes install instructions that I can find say to download the MySQL JDBC driver yourself and I don't see it in any of the Nukes binaries. It seems to be in the source code from CVS just because it's in a thirdparty directory that is shared by other JBoss projects. Since Nukes has no control over which JDBC driver you're using for your data source I personally don't think there would be any licensing issues for any of the binaries.

[theute]

AFAIK Nukes is GPL so far.

JBoss is LGPL.

[julien1]

Thomas is right.