Support MySQL X Protocol

[ngaut]

Ref to : http://mysqlserverteam.com/mysql-5-7-12-part-2-improving-the-mysql-protocol/

[ghost]

It's not clear by the tags, was the intention to accept or reject this feature?

[scsldb]

GPL V3 licenses are at risk and cannot be supported at this time.

[dveeden]

GPL V3 licenses are at risk and cannot be supported at this time.

[dvaneeden@dve-carbon server]$ for f in ./plugin/x/protocol/protobuf/*.proto; do head -23 $f | md5sum; done
b044874c631d3166f80ae585cf3491ef  -
b044874c631d3166f80ae585cf3491ef  -
b044874c631d3166f80ae585cf3491ef  -
b044874c631d3166f80ae585cf3491ef  -
b044874c631d3166f80ae585cf3491ef  -
b044874c631d3166f80ae585cf3491ef  -
b044874c631d3166f80ae585cf3491ef  -
b044874c631d3166f80ae585cf3491ef  -
b044874c631d3166f80ae585cf3491ef  -
b044874c631d3166f80ae585cf3491ef  -
b044874c631d3166f80ae585cf3491ef  -
b044874c631d3166f80ae585cf3491ef  -
[dvaneeden@dve-carbon server]$ head -23 ./plugin/x/protocol/protobuf/mysqlx.proto 
/*
 * Copyright (c) 2015, 2021, Oracle and/or its affiliates.
 *
 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2.0,
 * as published by the Free Software Foundation.
 *
 * This program is also distributed with certain software (including
 * but not limited to OpenSSL) that is licensed under separate terms,
 * as designated in a particular file or component or in included license
 * documentation.  The authors of MySQL hereby grant you an additional
 * permission to link the program and your derivative works with the
 * separately licensed software that they have included with MySQL.
 *
 * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 * GNU General Public License, version 2.0, for more details.
 *
 * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
 * Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301  USA
 */
[dvaneeden@dve-carbon server]$ cat MYSQL_VERSION 
MYSQL_VERSION_MAJOR=8
MYSQL_VERSION_MINOR=0
MYSQL_VERSION_PATCH=27
MYSQL_VERSION_EXTRA=

This doesn't look like GPLv3, but GPLv2 to me. However https://www.apache.org/licenses/GPL-compatibility.html suggests that this doesn't make a difference in this case.

Confusingly enough there is this:
https://github.com/mysql/mysql-server/blob/3290a66c89eb1625a7058e0ef732432b6952b435/plugin/x/protocol/protobuf/mysqlx.proto#L304-L305