licensing implications
Tom Holroyd
tomh at kurage.nimh.nih.gov
Thu Mar 6 22:21:50 UTC 2008
On Thu, 2008-03-06 at 14:06 -0800, Don Russell wrote:
> IANAL...
>
> If a company has a commercial software product using some proprietary
> database, and they want to switch to using MySQL, does the GPL license
> allow them to continue to sell their product just as they did before,
> or does GPL then mean their entire product has to fall under GPL?
>
no, the gpl does not mean their whole product has to be gpl. you can use
mysql---people already have it.
If you make _changes_ to MySQL that's a different story.
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