Hi, Mateusz! If you want a reliable answer you need to contact a lawyer, not the mailing list.
But with a usual disclaimer (I'm not a lawyer) I suppose that if you want to keep your engine closed source you have to contact Oracle (not MariaDB) and buy a license. On Jun 09, Mateusz Matan wrote: > Ok, thank You for Your answer, > mayby I was not very clear in describing our problem, > so I will describe it again in more details... > > We wrote a storage engine (implementing ha_xx.cpp/*.h)... > It is dynamically linked with MariaDB Database and it works only with > installed MariaDb Database. Our code use some MariaDB/MySQL classes > like ConditionPushdown Items and func classes... > > Problem which we try to solve, is how to sell our custom storage engine > with MariaDB database... > 1. Which version (license) should buy our customer (company customer) > on MariaDB Database ?? > - can they use it free or should they buy any version (which one > ??) > 2. Which licence (if any) should we use to sell such custom storage > engine ?? > - Should we pay for using MySQL/MariaDb classes in our code ?? > - which license should we use > (bought from Oracle or MariaDB if any is needed) > to sell our product (storage engine) without sharing the code, > just selling binary files ?? > > Thanku You for Your quick reply... > Mateusz Matan > Regards, Sergei _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~maria-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~maria-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
