On Sat, 26 Nov 2011 18:31:33 -0500, bls <bizp...@orange.fr> wrote:
Creating std.database based on sockets is useless.
Let's take MySQL for instance. In case that you create a commercial
application based on MySQL you have to pay fees to ORACLE ( approx. 1000
Euro, per Server) and nobody cares about your BOOST licensed Phobos raw
socket stuff..
You do not have to pay licensing fees to oracle to use MySQL -- it's GPL.
You do not have to pay licensing fees to oracle to modify MySQL -- it's
GPL.
You have to pay licensing fees to oracle to modify MySQL *and* keep the
modifications private when selling the modified server code.
Note that an application that uses MySQL as a data storage but does not
modify the MySQL source is not required to be GPL. However, I think if
you use the MySQL client code, it does need to be GPL. Writing a new
client that uses the correct protocol is not required to be GPL. So the
licensing of the client code *is* the thing most commercial users will
care about.
-Steve
