Seems like all against I see are coming from MySQL team. I know MySQL is stealing a lot of code from the public domain, inclduing the SSL part. How funny!
I already mentioned in the previous message. I am only encouraging the people to create more innovative works, and Open Source based product team, MySQL, is actually discouraging them. How beautiful! Once again, all product inventors, use your own license to pretoect your own rights. And let your customers download any troublesome packages if necessary. Pae ----- Original Message ----- From: "Benjamin Pflugmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Pae Choi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, November 30, 2002 8:18 AM Subject: Re: [OT] LEGAL information about MySQL. > Hi. > > On Sat 2002-11-30 at 06:43:11 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Didn't you the previous posting that contains two paragraphs > > from GPL? > > I saw these paragraphs. How do they relate to anything of this > discussion? They are taken out of context from the Preamble of the > license and only state some general intention. If you want to make > a point, please refer to the legal binding part. > > > And if someone wants to sell the software that use the MySQL, > > then simply let them downlaod it. Then you will be out of this > > crap. > > You obviously understand the GPL differently than the FSF does (see > the GPL FAQ: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html). The MySQL list > is not the appropriate forum to discuss this. > > > Also, PostgreSQL will be your alternative option as well. > > PostgreSQL is an interesting database, but the question was whether > software using MySQL must be distributed under GPL. > > > P.S.: There are many commercial software using and distributing > > the software/packages under GPL, > > You keep repeating that, but this proves nothing. First, doing > something does not make it right. Second, there are quite some > possibilities for commercial software to comply with GPL. If you want > to make a point relevant to this list, cite a specific commercial > software package which is using a GPL product in a similar situation > as using MySQL would mean. > > > why don't you sue them then. > > Because I do not own the copyright on this software? Only the > copyright holder can sue. > > > Well, as I said last time, the question is what MySQL AB thinks is > legally and it is up to them to sue if they consider it appropriate. > And it is ill-advised to suggest people to disregard what MySQL AB > thinks the GPL means. > > > I seriously wonder if you are just trolling. > > Regards, > > Benjamin. > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
