On 8/1/05, Michael A. Hobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear All, > > First of all I AM NOT A LAWYER. > > Do not make legal decisions based upon my opinions. > > Hire a real lawyer for legal opinions.
Same here! :) > You are not a lawyer either and you can get people into big trouble by > advising them on licenses *from memory*. As it happens, you are *WAY > WRONG* about MySQL licensing: > > http://www.mysql.com/company/legal/licensing/ > > which says (in part): > > In their simplest form, the following are general licensing guidelines: > > *If your software is licensed under either the GPL-compatible Free > Software License as defined by the Free Software Foundation or > approved by OSI, then use our GPL licensed version. > > *If you distribute a proprietary application in any way, and you are > not licensing and distributing your source code under GPL, you need to > purchase a commercial license of MySQL As a non-lawyer (who studied law for a year and then ran like hell) this is unenforcable junk as anything _using_ a database is _not_ a derivative product as is therefore not required to be open source by the GPL. However if MySQL want to carry on like dicks, just avoid them and use postgresql, http://www.postgresql.org it uses BSD license (irrelevant really but avoids nasty MySQL lawyers), is more standards compliant, has better data integrity and less than half the dicks! It also comes with a set of steak knives and a years supply of donuts*. *donuts may be virtual or may have been eaten by the author already Jeff _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders
