On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 11:48, Paul Howarth wrote: > Scot L. Harris wrote: > > If you were modifying the mysql code and providing a different version > > fine. But in most cases you are simply using the database program not > > modifying its source code. Your data structures and code that interacts > > with the database should be unencumbered. Kind of like saying that > > since you compiled your program using gcc that it now has to be > > published as source code. I don't think that was the intention of the > > GPL. And is not the way most people have interpreted it. > > Most MySQL apps will be linked against the MySQL libraries. The developers > have made a conscious decision to license the software under the GPL rather > than the LGPL (which would allow 'unencumbered' distribution in the manner you > described), so that's clearly *their* intention. And it's the way the GPL is > intended to work. The GNU readline library is licensed in the same way. If you > use it, you must GPL your code. If you don't want to do that, don't use it. > > Paul. Which is what I have done. I chose to use posgresql instead which has no such restriction. They forced the issue. I would have been happy to continue using mysql for the internal applications that had been developed. -- Scot L. Harris webid@xxxxxxxxxx The English country gentleman galloping after a fox -- the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable. -- Oscar Wilde, "A Woman of No Importance"
