-----Original Message-----
From: Rob Rohan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: February 10, 2004 6:39 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: MySQL and CF
I sent an email to the MySQL guys asking for their opinion on this
thread and this is what they said:
Hi Rob,
In most cases you are not required to purchase a license for using MySQL
as
the back-end database for your website (commercial or not), see our
licensing policy here, http://www.mysql.com/products/licensing.html. As
long as you do not copy, modify or distribute MySQL, a commercial
license is not required.
However, if you create a non-GPL web application that requires a MySQL
database and commercially distribute it, licenses are required.
Does this help?
Regards,
Mr. Matt Fredrickson,
Sales Executive
MySQL, Inc. - www.mysql.com
On Fri, 2004-02-06 at 09:38, Doug White wrote:
> That post may be somewhat misleading. If you are using the open source
version
> of MySQL, you are under NO obligation to reveal the source code of the
> application you develop which uses the database. The only "reveal"
obligation
> you will have is if you modify the MySQL source code itself. That is a
> reasonable requirement of the license.
>
> This little thing was omitted from the post on CF-Talk, and I caution
anyone to
> takes the post literally to mean that your application which uses the
database
> is automatically open source as well. It just ain't so.
>
> No user should be afraid to use proprietary code to access a MySQL
database
>
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: CF-Talk
> Sent: Friday, February 06, 2004 10:18 AM
> Subject: RE: MySQL and CF
>
>
> Yikes! Well, I'll never be using mySQL again.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Vince Bonfanti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Friday, February 6, 2004 9:05 am
> Subject: RE: MySQL and CF
>
> > Not to comment at all on its technical merits, anyone using MySQL
> > should be
> > familiar with their licensing terms. Specifically, MySQL is *not*
> > free for
> > commercial development. If you use MySQL for a commercial product
> > and don't
> > purchase a commercial license, then you run the risk of inadvertently
> > releasing your source code for free.
> >
> > MySQL is released under GPL, unlike Linux, for example, which is
> > releasedunder LGPL. Under the LGPL, if you write an application
> > that runs on Linux
> > you can redistribute that application without releasing the source
> > code.Under the GPL, however, if you release an application that
> > runs on MySQL,
> > then you must release the source code of your application.
> >
> > Here are the relevant quotes from the MySQL licensing page on
> > their web
> > site:
> >
> > http://www.mysql.com/products/licensing.html
> >
> > Regarding their Open Source license, which is the GPL:
> >
> > "The Open Source License allows you to use the software at no
> > chargeunder the condition that if you use MySQL in an application you
> > redistribute, the complete source code for your application must be
> > available and freely redistributable under reasonable conditions."
> >
> > If you don't want to release the source code of your application,
> > you must
> > purchase a commercial license:
> >
> > "The Commercial License, which allows you to provide
> > commercial software
> > licenses to your customers or distribute MySQL-based applications
> > withinyour organization. This is for organizations that do not
> > want to release the
> > source code for their applications as open source / free software;
> > in other
> > words they do not want to comply with the GNU General Public
> > License (GPL)."
> >
> > Note that it's not just the MySQL database that's covered under these
> > license terms--they also apply to the MySQL JDBC and ODBC drivers.
> > (This is
> > the reason BlueDragon no longer ships the MySQL JDBC driver).
> >
> > So if you use MySQL--be careful. If you don't purchase a
> > commercial license,
> > anyone can demand that you give them your source code under the
> > terms of the
> > GPL license.
> >
> > Vince Bonfanti
> > New Atlanta Communications, LLC
> > http://www.newatlanta.com
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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