Andy Green 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.
That would only be the case if you write the client side yourself and if
other databases could replace mysql. If you include GPL-covered client
libraries, the work that includes it must also be GPL'd.
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Les Mikesell
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