----- Original Message ----- From: "David Axmark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Darney Lampert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "mysql" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 3:55 AM Subject: Re: [OT] LEGAL information about MySQL.
> I am the licensing guru for MySQL AB and one of the > founders. With regard to MySQL software falling under the GPL licence, I was too focussed on studying the GPL licence itself, and missed this very clear section of the MySQL AB licence: "As long as you never distribute (internally or externally) the MySQL Software in any way, you are free to use it for powering your application, irrespective of whether your application is under GPL or other OSI approved license or not." In all fairness to MySQL AB, that wording is clear enough, I would say. :) My eye also caught the following blurb: "We also believe that if you have strong reasons NOT to go GPL, you also have the monetary means to purchase commercial licences." Conversely, I would say: "I also believe that if you have strong reasons NOT to go COMMERCIAL, you also do not have the monetary means to purchase commercial licences." In other words: relax. :) Worried people who are asking questions here to the effect of their program "using" MySQL requires a commercial licence, are likely people who cannot afford a commercial licence anyway. - Mark --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
