On Sunday, 25 בFebruary 2007 16:39, Tzahi Fadida wrote: > On Sunday 25 February 2007 16:09, Alex Dover wrote: > > As far as I can tell , MySQL is not free for commercial 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.
Let's not mix commercial with proprietary. MySQL is covered by GPL (in the latest revisions also the client libraries). This means anybody can use it for any purpose (commercial or not) as long as they abide by the license terms. If your commercial venture includes *distributing* the program, than you have to distribute the source as well. Tzahi is correct that proprietary programs that link against MySQL libraries probably cannot be distributed (gratis or for a fee). However, the GPL does permit such a use internally. -- Oron Peled Voice/Fax: +972-4-8228492 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.actcom.co.il/~oron ICQ UIN: 16527398 Microsoft is NOT the answer. Microsoft is the Question. The answer is: "NO!" ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
