Somebody in the thread at some point said: > In most cases, the end user supplies his own copy of the library, which > he obtained as a standard component of his OS distribtution, so I think > the whole concept is on pretty shaky legal ground. But, I wouldn't want > to be the one paying the court costs to sort it out. And in the case of > MySql there's not much reason to, since PostgresSQL is arguably a better > database without any of the restrictions. Even better, use ODBC, perl > DBI, or a similar database independent interface and let the end user > choose his own database so there can be no claim that you have created a > derived work. I should think the vast bulk of work "using" MySQL is protected from this by being a PHP script or some other scripting language where SQL is used as one language database binding amongst many. -Andy
