Everyone who is anyone has had their knickers twisted by this catastrophic sea change in MySQL licensing. Some people are even hyperblogulating; from this article from LinuxInsider:

'Ongoing controversy has dogged the switch from LGPL to GPL Last week. OpenLink Software CEO Kingsley Idehen posted an angry note on his Weblog in which he denounced the move, saying in part: "Nice way to treat a community that has built itself around MySQL's LCPL [sic] client libraries."' No one we spoke to knew exactly what the LCPL was; one person thought it might be from that other project, CNU. CNU, which is a non-recursive acronym, stands for "Chinchilla's Not Unix". The chinchilla we interviewed, Mokumoku, said he was not affected and refused any further comment:

Mokumoku Weathers the LCPL/GPL/LGPL Storm

The Debian LGPL fork of MySQL Client Libraries proves the extent of the disaster, with the following statistics: Bugs ( 0 open /0 total - Support Requests ( 0 open /0 total ) - Patches ( 0 open /0 total ) - Feature Requests ( 0 open /0 total ) Public Forums ( 2 messages in 2 forum )  Mailing Lists ( 0 public mailing lists) CVS Repository ( 0 commits, 0 adds ). The two messages in the forum are full of dire implications: "Welcome to open discussion", and "Welcome to Help", both posted in April of 2003.

As this article points out, anyone who even thinks about using MySQL is committing a thought crime and is in breach of licensing restrictions:

"MySQL's license restricts platform vendors from developing software surrounding MySQL because they claim that any software that is implemented to make use of their products falls under their licensing restrictions, whether or not they use anything developed by MySQL AB."

Rumors are flying about a probable merger of SCO and MySQL AB, since more and more their legal departments seemingly follow the same logic in their licensing. Other software developers whose products are based on both Linux and MySQL are privately talking about switching to a different parallel universe if this happens, since things are getting so weird in this one.