On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 06:30:02PM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > MySql also has a commercial license MySQL also has a *proprietary* license which they sell you (commercially). Free Software is also commercial! You can use Free Software to gain money even if you release your program under the GPL. > if you don't want to release your > product under the GPL. But again, postgresql, apache and tomcat do not > have the GPL restrictions and there is no problem building commercial > applications with them. There isn't any problem building commercial applications with MySQL's GPL version. MySQL is capitalizing on the confusion between the terms proprietary and commercial in order to convince many to buy their proprietary license. Rui -- Fnord. Today is Boomtime, the 63rd day of Bureaucracy in the YOLD 3173 + No matter how much you do, you never do enough -- unknown + Whatever you do will be insignificant, | but it is very important that you do it -- Gandhi + So let's do it...?
