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[Les Mikesell]

Andy Green 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.

That would only be the case if you write the client side yourself and if 
other databases could replace mysql.  If you include GPL-covered client 
libraries, the work that includes it must also be GPL'd.

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   Les Mikesell
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