Hello David, Since you were kind enough to clarify some matters on licensing I was hoping you would also be open to suggestions. Instead of charging a flat fee for each copy of MySQL that is resold why not charge a percentage up to a certain point. It might make it a bit easier for developers with inexpensive applications to choose your product. If I know that MySQL is going to be, for example, a constant ten percent of my sale cost I can price more competitively for the market. The is defiantly a boon for developers who are selling applications for the forty to sixty dollar market. As they say, ten percent of something is more than ten percent of nothing.
If this pricing scheme will not work for MySQL can you please explain why? I am genuinely curious. John -----Original Message----- From: David Axmark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 2:14 PM To: Damir Dezeljin Cc: MySQL List Subject: Re: InterBase vs. Mysql On Wed, 2003-02-19 at 08:14, Damir Dezeljin wrote: > Firstly excuse my poor english ;))) > > I read the entire mail thread. I'm useing MySQL for our own data storage > (I use it to store our oceanographic data for internal use) - I guess that > I don't need a commercial license for this. > > I have another question ... if I will do a commercial program in future > which will use MySQL as backend, do I need to buy only one commercial > license to link the program or does any customer need a commercial > license if I don't want that my code to be GPLed? You need to buy a license for each distributed/sold version of your product that contains MySQL. But there are no limits on the number of clients that connects to that MySQL server of number of CPUs in the machine or so (like with our big proprietary competitors). /David (MySQL Co-Founder) --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
