If someone pays you to develop a website for them based on MySQL, you won't pay for it. As you are not selling a product that contains MySQL. You are selling your service and handing over full code to the client as their property. There is no licensing involved in this case.
If you develop a product, say, some kind of online shopping system that you distribute on a CD which installs Linux, Apache, MysQL, PHP and your App and distribute that, then you probably should be paying for a license. This is because instead of you handing over full code (and it's rights) to the client as their property, you are placing licensing limitations on it. Some people "get around" licensing by developing systems and leasing them out to their clients. I think this is a bit of a grey area and I'm not sure how legal or ethical this practise is, in my opinion this case should probably be paying licensing. Does that clarify at all? If you have specific questions you can contact MySQL themselves using the online form: http://www.mysql.com/company/contact/?topic=licensing cheers Lachlan -----Original Message----- From: Leonardo Francalanci [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 11 August 2004 8:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: R: On the licensing once again What if I sell a web site built using mysql? Do I need a license on my web server? > -----Messaggio originale----- > Da: Lachlan Mulcahy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Inviato: mercoledi 11 agosto 2004 13.14 > A: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Oggetto: RE: On the licensing once again > > > Essentially the spirit of the license is, if a company builds a system of > some kind where the database facilities are provided by MySQL and wish to > sell that system as a whole without a GPL or other accepted open license > then they will be required to purchase a license for each copy of > the server > they distribute. The company distributing the system would generally pay > this to MySQL and include it in the costing/pricing of their product. > > Does that clarify things any further for you? > > Regards, > Lachlan > -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
