Hi.
First, I am not a lawyer.
On Tue 2003-02-18 at 15:48:00 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Quick question about the license issue that I thought of while reading
> through the Interbase Vs. MySQL threads.
> If I develop a program that uses MySQL for my company and it is only used
> for internal use, never repacked and sold/distributed outside the company
> what type of license aggrement is that under?
If you mean whether that complies with the GPL, the answer is yes. The
GPL is about distributing and therefore doesn't care about your use
case (a company as a single entity with regard to this). In effect,
you are using MySQL without license (but only under the "fair use"
clauses of the copyright law, which allow you that).
The reason you may do so with MySQL, but not with some other
commercial software is simply that MySQL AB gave you the software
without asking for money by making the download available (without
attaching any conditions).
> This project would have code that would obviously be 'sensitive'
> information for the company so Open Source would be out the question, but
> as this would never be re-distributed am I right in thinking we do not
> need to buy a license aggrement from MySQL?
Yes.
> I was reading throuhg the manual in the license section and noticed
> they said it would be 'nice' that if MySQL was helping your
> enterprise then you should at least buy some support from
> them. However, I am comfortable enough with MySQL and its use is
> VERY light weight that it would be pretty silly to buy support from
> them.
> Not saying anything against the MySQL team, but they did make
> the product fairly easy to work with :)
Yeah, the idea in that sentence behind buying support is not about
having support, but about given some money in order to "pay back", if
you think that would be the right thing to do. That you also have
official support this way is just an added benefit.
In other words: it would be just a gift in order to say thanks. (With
the thought that you already got a gift from them: free use of MySQL.)
HTH,
Benjamin.
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