What if a company hires me to build an application for them. They already have MySQL downloaded and installed. Do I/they need a license? What if the software is open-source, but not free?
----- Original Message ----- From: "Lachlan Mulcahy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2004 2:14 PM Subject: 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 > > -----Original Message----- > From: DebugasRu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, 11 August 2004 5:22 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: On the licensing once again > > > 1) > LM> If your software is licensed under either the GPL-compatible Free > Software > LM> License as defined by the Free Software Foundation or approved by OSI, > then > LM> use our GPL licensed version. > > 2) > LM> If you distribute a proprietary application in any way, and you are not > LM> licensing and distributing your source code under GPL, you need to > purchase > LM> a commercial license of MySQL > > To be honest i don't understand the double licensing issues at all. > Does the second part 2) applies to the developer of proprietary software > only or does it apply to its users too ? > Why a user cannot install and use MySql under GPL and then install and > use proprietary software under whatever licence he got it. > Or do you want to say that the end user can in general use MySQL under > GPL, but as soon as he tries to use it with that particular > proprietary software then he can no longer use MySQL under GPL ? > This seems to contradict the GPL license terms > > > > -- > 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] > -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
