GPL

[Andy Green]

Somebody in the thread at some point said:
> On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 06:30:02PM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
>> MySql also has a commercial license
> 
> MySQL also has a *proprietary* license which they sell you (commercially).
> 
> Free Software is also commercial! You can use Free Software to gain money
> even if you release your program under the GPL.
> 
>> if you don't want to release your 
>> product under the GPL.  But again, postgresql, apache and tomcat do not 
>> have the GPL restrictions and there is no problem building commercial 
>> applications with them.
> 
> There isn't any problem building commercial applications with MySQL's GPL
> version. MySQL is capitalizing on the confusion between the terms
> proprietary and commercial in order to convince many to buy their
> proprietary license.

Yeah because your proprietary app connects to MySQL over a socket, you
did not make a "derived work" that MySQL is talking about.

-Andy