Somebody in the thread at some point said: > 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. Yeah because your proprietary app connects to MySQL over a socket, you did not make a "derived work" that MySQL is talking about. -Andy
