On 4/6/07, Zoran Vasiljevic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Am 06.04.2007 um 17:06 schrieb Stephen Deasey: > > > It's their code, they can licence it n different ways, and they have. > > Your choice of: > > > > - GPL plus exception for linking other OSI approved licenced code > > - purchase a licence from MySQL AB > > I do not think we understand each other. If the company X > purchased MySQL and designed a driver they use to connect > to it (closed source) to what libs are they linking? > You say: there are only GPL libraries. So *everybody* is > linking to GPL libraries, regardless what they purchased > from mysql ab. Is that right? > If yes, then everybody is violating GPL. > If not then there are different libraries: GPL'ed and > non-GPL'ed.
No. It's not GPL code, it's code under a GPL (plus exceptions) licence. If you purchase another licence, then the GPL licence terms don't apply to you. You abide by the terms of the new licence. Although you refer to the GPL as viral, I don't think that means the binaries have actual physical cooties you can see under a microscope. So you don't have to throw away Bob's contaminated GPL libraries and use special non-GPL libraries from MySQL AB. So, everybody is not breaking the GPL. Specifically, the people who bought other licences aren't even subject to it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ naviserver-devel mailing list naviserver-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/naviserver-devel
