Re: [boost] Review of Boost.MySql

On Fri, 13 May 2022 at 19:29, Vinnie Falco wrote:

On Thu, May 12, 2022 at 3:12 AM Ruben Perez via Boost wrote:

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...Google's protobufs...creates licensing conflicts with anything submitted to Boost.

If you are only reading protobufs and using the most common subset of its features, it should be fairly easy to do a clean-room implementation of just the part of the protobuf format that you need to make your library work. It wouldn't be that much code either. It would not be necessary (or desirable) to require linking with the stock protobuf library.

It's good to know that this is not impossible, as I could see this library implementing the X protocol at some point. I don't have the time right now to do this, but it's good to know it can be done. Regards, Ruben.