Kay C Lan wrote:
mySQL offers it's db free for non-profit.
Kinda sorta.
MySQL is released under the GPL, so you can grab the source for free,
compile it yourself, and sell it for $1000 if you like.
But there's one catch: anything you make with it must also have its
source available, and anyone could download your source and sell it too.
Or give it away. Or modify it so it draws dancing chickens all over
the user's screen if that's what they want to do, so long as they also
make their source available.
GPL moves the cost-of-entry from cash to skills: rather than be required
to pay for it with money, you can pay for it with time to set up a C
compiler and run a make file.
It's only for closed-source projects that a copy of MySQL can be
obtained under a separate proprietary license.
--
Richard Gaskin
Fourth World
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