Re: On the licensing once again

2004-08-12 Thread Issac Goldstand
, August 11, 2004 2:14 PM Subject: RE: On the licensing once again Essentially the spirit of the license is, if a company builds a system of some kind where the database facilities are provided by MySQL and wish to sell that system as a whole without a GPL or other accepted open license

Re: On the licensing once again

2004-08-12 Thread Zak Greant
On Aug 12, 2004, at 2:38, Issac Goldstand wrote: What if a company hires me to build an application for them. They already have MySQL downloaded and installed. Do I/they need a license? What if the software is open-source, but not free? Hi Issac, We always recommend that proprietary

Re: On the licensing once again

2004-08-11 Thread Zak Greant
On Aug 11, 2004, at 1:21, DebugasRu wrote: 1) LM If your software is licensed under either the GPL-compatible Free Software LM License as defined by the Free Software Foundation or approved by OSI, then LM use our GPL licensed version. 2) LM If you distribute a proprietary application in any

Re: On the licensing once again

2004-08-11 Thread Zak Greant
On Aug 11, 2004, at 2:42, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you Zak for correcting me. Much appreciated ;-) Hi Nils, Glad to help! Cheers! --zak -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: On the licensing once again

2004-08-11 Thread Lachlan Mulcahy
Essentially the spirit of the license is, if a company builds a system of some kind where the database facilities are provided by MySQL and wish to sell that system as a whole without a GPL or other accepted open license then they will be required to purchase a license for each copy of the server

Re: On the licensing once again

2004-08-11 Thread Lachlan Mulcahy
] Oggetto: RE: On the licensing once again Essentially the spirit of the license is, if a company builds a system of some kind where the database facilities are provided by MySQL and wish to sell that system as a whole without a GPL or other accepted open license then they will be required

Re: On the licensing once again

2004-08-11 Thread Leonardo Francalanci
If you develop a product, say, some kind of online shopping system that you distribute on a CD which installs Linux, Apache, MysQL, PHP and your App and distribute that, then you probably should be paying for a license. This is because instead of you handing over full code (and it's rights)

Re: On the licensing once again

2004-08-11 Thread Rich Lafferty
On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 05:43:16PM +0200, Leonardo Francalanci [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you develop a product, say, some kind of online shopping system that you distribute on a CD which installs Linux, Apache, MysQL, PHP and your App and distribute that, then you probably should be