[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> I am far from a legal expert on this... but is it all that bad that
> NuSphere wishes to sell a derivative work of MySQL? Other than it competes
> with MySQL AB's business of selling their own commercial deployments of the
> package? And by that I can somewhat see why NuSphere is using the phrase
> "unfair business practice."
>
> I'm fairly certain that MySQL is primarily developed on RedHat Linux
> servers, is it not? Linux has gotten itself out of the "hackers" domain
> into the mainstream due to the commercial investments of companies like
> RedHat and Caldera, both of which sell the GPL product at a profit,
> including their own enhancements to it. I can walk into Office Depot this
> afternoon and purchase RedHat 7.x right off the shelf. It's sitting right
> there beside Windows2000. Obviously, agreements are in place to allow
> this.
There's nothing wrong in selling, fixing, extending etc. GPLed
software. However, doing so means that to comply with the license you
have to do so yourself - you have to release your improvements with
the same copyright (GPL) as the rest of the code.
--
Trond Eivind Glomsrød
Red Hat, Inc.
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