Re: Licenseing Issue

2002-06-13 Thread Nicolas Diehl


As far as I understand the concept of Open Source / GPL you don't need a 
license for it if you do not alter the Code and/or provide the full 
Sourcecode.

For example:
You develop a win32 application using MSVC++ that accesses a MySQL database 
on a linux-server through ADO / ODBC.

You need the commercial license of any Open Source software, if you use it 
as an embedded part of your application without disclosing the FULL 
sourcecode of your application OR if you change any part of the software and 
- you guessed it - do not provide the full source.

You do not need a license if you build the server using a standard linux 
distribution like Mandrake or Redhat using their version of MySQL and 
provide the installation media containing the sourcecode of MySQL (not the 
source of your App).

I'm not sure how it's handled if you compile your own binaries of MySQL e.g. 
from the developer-tree, but according to GPL, if you provide the source, 
you don't need a license.



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Von: Michael Ivanyo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 12. Juni 2002 05:24
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Betreff: Licenseing Issue

I do not fully understand the license requirements and
have a question.  The application that I am developing
will be able to work with either MySql, Postgres, or
Oracle.  Will I still need a license if the user
decides to connect to a MySql database?
--Michael



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Re: Licenseing Issue

2002-06-11 Thread 龔惠樑(Borus.Kung)

As far as I understand
I think you don't need one, but I suggest you to buy one
to support MySQL!   :)

for your customer, only those who install MySQL need
MySQL license.

Borus

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> I do not fully understand the license requirements and
> have a question.  The application that I am developing
> will be able to work with either MySql, Postgres, or
> Oracle.  Will I still need a license if the user
> decides to connect to a MySql database?
> --Michael
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Re: Licenseing Issue

2002-06-11 Thread Gerald R. Jensen

Somebody will ... make it clear in whatever licensing statement you have
that the end-user is responsible for licensing third-party components.

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I do not fully understand the license requirements and
have a question.  The application that I am developing
will be able to work with either MySql, Postgres, or
Oracle.  Will I still need a license if the user
decides to connect to a MySql database?
--Michael


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Licenseing Issue

2002-06-11 Thread Michael Ivanyo

I do not fully understand the license requirements and
have a question.  The application that I am developing
will be able to work with either MySql, Postgres, or
Oracle.  Will I still need a license if the user
decides to connect to a MySql database?
--Michael


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