On Thu, 2008-03-06 at 22:15 -0500, Lamar Owen wrote: > On Thursday 06 March 2008, Don Russell wrote: > > IANAL... > > > > If a company has a commercial software product using some proprietary > > database, and they want to switch to using MySQL, does the GPL license > > allow them to continue to sell their product just as they did before, or > > does GPL then mean their entire product has to fall under GPL? > > If it links with the MySQL client libraries, then the code so linked must be > GPL. But see this: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2004-June/268476.html I've used commercial closed-source software that used MySQL ... that company is out of business now so maybe it's bad luck. > Or, you could use the BSD-licensed PostgreSQL instead and not have licensing > issues. > > But I'm not a lawyer, and this is not legal advice. > > -- > Lamar Owen > www.pari.edu > Dr. Tom -- Your danger is not small, you free spirit and wanderer! You have had a bad day: see that a still worse evening does not overtake you! Thus spoke Zarathustra.
