Quoting guy keren, from the post of Sun, 25 Feb: > > 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.
Choo, You've been in this business a long time, I expect more of you... A dual license means you can choose which license you want to use the product under. If you choose GPL, it's GPL all the way, you can redistribute it with source in any way you want along with any product you want, propriatery or open. dynamicly linking with GPL libraries is also fine, only static linking isn't. However, if you want to stick it inside a product (like VersionCue that is built into all of Adobe's products AFAIK) and you want to patch it, hide its original name or hard-link it with other code without redistributing the source, that's when you need to use the other license (and pay for it), which gives you rights to embed MySQL in your product, get support for it and so on. -- Networking washing machines since 1999 Ira Abramov http://ira.abramov.org/email/ ================================================================= 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]
