Hi Joe, If you're going to ship Hypertable as part of a closed-source product, you'll need to make any modification to Hypertable "per-se" open source. In other words, all of the porting work you've done will need to be made open source. As far as application code goes, here is our policy:
1. If you're building a non-database application, then we do not consider that to be an extension of Hypertable and therefore you can ship your product close-sourced without fear of GPL violation. 2. If you're building a database application (e.g. FonzyDB) then we do consider that an extension of Hypertable and you'll need to obtain a commercial license from Hypertable, Inc. - Doug On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 5:19 AM, Fonzy <[email protected]> wrote: > Doug, > > If we compile against your libraries does this mean we will have to make > our source code available as well? We would like to keep our code > proprietary, is the only way to do this to use the Thrift method for > connection? > > Thanks, > > > On Friday, January 6, 2012 2:24:15 AM UTC-5, Doug Judd wrote: >> >> Hypertable is currently licensed under GPLv2. We're planning to change >> to GPLv3. This license is similar to v2 except that it contains protection >> against "Tivoization" and Discriminatory patent deals (see A Quick Guide >> to GPLv3 <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/quick-guide-gplv3.html>). If >> this causes a problem for any of you, please let us know. >> >> - Doug >> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Hypertable User" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/hypertable-user/-/wwcFDdPN8oMJ. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/hypertable-user?hl=en. > -- Doug Judd CEO, Hypertable Inc. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Hypertable Development" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hypertable-dev?hl=en.
