I'm not quite sure where you are going with this, but are you aware that Patrick Galbraith, the current maintainer of DBD::mysql is an employee of MySQL AB, and paid to work on the DBD?
I think he needs to update the AUTHORS section then ;-)
The current version of DBD::mysql is almost completely written by Jochen Wiedmann, and is now being maintained by Rudy Lippan (rlippan@remotelinux.com). The first version's author was Alligator Descartes (descarte@symbolstone.org), who has been aided and abetted by Gary Shea, Andreas König and Tim Bunce amongst others.
The Mysql module was originally written by Andreas König <koenig@kulturbox.de>. The current version, mainly an emulation layer, is from Jochen Wiedmann.
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