ביום ראשון 25 ינואר 2004, 13:59, נכתב על ידי Raditha Dissanayake:
> Hi Oded,
>
> Thanks for the intepretation of the GPL i am familiar with it too since
> our company also contributes to a lot of open source developent
> (unfortunately not to kannel - yet)
>
> My point was the mysql inteprets the GPL differently from everyone else.
No they don't.
> Yes we intend to to link the client against a close source product
> that's why i wrote to them in the first place asking for a license. What
> i disagree with is their insistence of our buying a server license. We
> have no plans at all to redistribute mysql. Our product is not limited
> to a mysql backend anyway.
>
> the bottom line from the mysql company is that if your product requires
> the buyer to download mysql server you need to buy a commercial license.
> This is clearly mentioned on their site.
Again - that's not an issue with GPL or MySQL's interpetation of it. if you
want to use their product not under the GPL, then both you and MySQL AB are
not confined by the GPL license and therefor can require to purchase any
license they have available. AFAIK, MySQL AB do not have client development
licenses.
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