Andy Green wrote:
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
I've written various webapps commercially and on delivering the finished product I ask the client to install tomcat and mysql connector/J. Does this mean the webapp I have delivered needs to be under GPL?. I have always assumed this was not the case since I am not exactly deriving any code from tomcat or mysql.
So now after following this thread, I am now confused.
br
Jason
