Will FC2 have MySQL 4?

[Rui Miguel Seabra]

Hi,

I must remind you that I am not a lawyer, if you want legal advice go
get one, since this is my informed opinion:

On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 12:56 +0000, WipeOut wrote:
> Ok, how does this work.. We are developing a PHP based web app that will 
> never be sold and the code is not GPL.. It will be hosted by us and 
> people will subscribe to the service that we are offering and pay a 
> monthly fee.. Would I be required to buy a MySQL licence?

What you're talking about is the web services 'loophole'.
This loophole consists of trying to confuse people into thinking that
just because the software is running on a remote server, that you don't
use it.

As you can understand easily, it makes no sense, it is just an extension
of the computer to the internet, and your 'mouse and keyboard' becomes
the browser.

IMHO this is morally equal to giving a copy of the software for someone
to use, but I don't know if this would stand with current copyright law.

If you do it as you say, you will likely be using it in a proprietary
way, so even though you're using GPL'ed software, you are not giving
your users any of the required freedoms, so you could be in violation of
copyright law by not respecting the GPL, so you probably should buy a
proprietary license from MySQL AB.

You could sove that very easily by adding a link to download said web
software.

Rui

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