On Wed, 11 May 2022 at 19:23, Phil Endecott via Boost
Trademark ---------
Klemens Morgenstern makes the point that MySql is a trademark of Oracle. Calling this "Boost.MySql" doesn't look great to me.
I agree. Of all the trademarks in the world you could violate, Oracle's would be close to last on my list. As far as I know, Oracle haven't objected to MySQL++ < https://tangentsoft.com/mysqlpp/> or mysqlcppapi < http://mysqlcppapi.sourceforge.net/> but Boost is higher profile than both of them, and it's not a gamble I'd want to take. http://mysqlcppapi.sourceforge.net/
How can you write "The Boost MySql-compatible Database Library" more concisely?
It's not a MySQL-compatible database library because it isn't a database. MySQL does actually have a "database library", i.e. an embeddable library that provides an in-process RDBMS. That's not what the proposed library does. It's a client API for connecting to a database server. In MySQL world I think these are called "connectors". I recommend an original name for the project, and only mention MySQL in the "headline" description, something like "A client library for connecting to MySQL and MariaDB databases".