The license says you have the right to distribute it on CD. If they don't
install it by default, they respect the license. We can ship it on the CD,
but don't put it in the "comps" file. So even if they install everything, it
won't be installed unless they install it afterwards.
Jean-Michel
Jacques Le Marois wrote:
> Jean-Michel Dault wrote:
> >
> > I have just noticed this in their license. I don't know when it has
> > changed, but I'm sure it wasn't there the last time I checked:
> >
> > However, the following methods of distribution involving payment shall
> > not in and of themselves be a violation of this restriction:
> > 1.Posting the Program on a public access information storage and
> > retrieval service for which a fee is
> > received for retrieving information (such as an on-line service),
> > provided that the fee is not
> > content-dependent (i.e., the fee would be the same for retrieving the
> > same volume of information
> > consisting of random data).
> > ==>2.Distributing the Program on a CD-ROM, provided that the files
> > containing the Program are
> > ==>reproduced entirely and verbatim on such CD-ROM, and provided further
> > that all information on
> > ==> such CD-ROM be redistributable for non-commercial purposes without
> > charge.
> >
> > That means we can ship the latest version of MySQL with
> > Cassini!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
> Shouldn't be a problem for a compagny who want to sell a computer with
> Mandrake on it ?
> If they need to pay each time stuff to MySQL isn't not ok.
>
> Jacques.
