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?
Thanks
Does Red Hat ship mysql on RHEL? yes it does.
Can I sell you a CD with my software on it? yes I can, if you want to
buy it.
Can I include mysql on it? Yes I can, but if I don't have a licence from
SUN to the contrary, I must include or offer its source code.
Can I include mysql on it? Yes I can, see previous question?
Must my software be GPL-licensed? No, it needn't, provided it's not
linked with it. Read the GPL, very carefully and very slowly.
Note that I can link my software, commercial or not, with any parts of
mysqld that are lgpl-licenced.
