On Sun, 25 Feb 2007, Ira Abramov wrote:

> Quoting Tzahi Fadida, from the post of Sun, 25 Feb:
> > On Sunday 25 February 2007 16:09, Alex Dover wrote:
> > > There was a question about business perspective of MySQL vs. PostgreSQL...
> > > As far as I can tell , MySQL is not free for commercial distribution. It's
> > > only free if you use it yourself or as part of some Open Source
> > > distribution.
> > > Correct me if I'm wrong (am I reading MySQL license wrong?)
> >
> > And, PostgreSQL is free in that regard since it has a BSD license which 
> > allows
> >it to be incorporated into any commercial distribution or embedded in any
> > closed sourced project.
>
> Didn't MySQL used to be plublished under dual licenses? either GPL or
> "embedded"?

it still is. however, the other license is commercial - i.e. you need to
pay $$$ for that.

-- 
guy

"For world domination - press 1,
 or dial 0, and please hold, for the creator." -- nob o. dy


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