licensing implications

[Lamar Owen]

On Thursday 06 March 2008, 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?

If it links with the MySQL client libraries, then the code so linked must be 
GPL.

Or, you could use the BSD-licensed PostgreSQL instead and not have licensing 
issues.

But I'm not a lawyer, and this is not legal advice.

-- 
Lamar Owen
www.pari.edu