Actually, since the middle code is GPL then the applications touching it
will also become GPL. Hence the term VIRAL.
The only way to use a GPL is to kill the Viral/license or change or
eradicate the virus. In the case of most GPL libraries is paying for a
commercial license.
Thats the ONLY way.
*Davis, so, if I have a MySQL server which I have paid for the
commercial license, and have 10 client using my program to attatch to
it, they all have to pay licensing?
*
Dean Davis wrote:
Yes dynamically linking to a library that uses mySQL GPL code triggers
the GPL license.
However, IANAL but I would agree that if you made a standalone
application (graphic or background) and that this application was a
"middleman" of sorts between your real application and mySQL and all
this middleman did was provide a service for your real
application (i.e. Used IPC or AppleScript or listened on a port for
communications) I think that would be a successful sidestep of the GPL
requirement. Of course the middleman code would have to be GPL.
Dean Davis
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