At 06:49 AM 6/8/2006, Jochem van Dieten wrote:
On 6/8/06, mos wrote:
At 08:15 PM 6/7/2006, you wrote:
I believe that if you are only using MySQL for your company's
internal needs, whether from a web server or for deployment to other
company-owned locations, you don't need a commercial license.
Unfortunately that's not what MySQL AB licensing person told me. The
license is more strict than that. If your company distributes an
application that uses MySQL database inside the company (even inside the
same building), and you don't give the other dept the source code (so it
falls outside the gpl license) then the dept receiving the application
needs to have a MySQL license. In other words, the complete application
source code must follow the application.
If both departments are registered as the same 'legal person' whatever
one department owns is automatically owned by the other department
too. So as long as both departments are under the same registration at
the Chamber of Commerce (or however that legally works in your
jurisdiction), this is not distribution as intended in the GPL.
Jochem
Jochem,
Well that's what I thought too. But if each dept has their own MySQL
server, and you do not give the other dept your source code for your
application, MySQL AB claims you need a license for that dept (at least
that's what they claimed 2 years ago when I spoke with them). Now if each
dept already had licenses for each MySQL server or there was only 1
centralized MySQL server, then of course they don't need a new license.
This still presents a problem if the company is distributing standalone
MySQL applications that run on desktops within a company, because could add
up to a lot of license fees. Even standalone MySQL applications require a
license.
Mike
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