-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Am Dienstag, 16. Dezember 2003 00:02 schrieb james.bannon: > I thought that too. It definitely says that its distributed under the GPL on > the web site. This was one the reasons I downloaded it! "Dropped LGPL" means, you are not allowed to develop commercial/closed products against MaxDB.
SapDB was LGPL for this case. MaxDB is definetly not. I do not accept this restrictions. There are many products for which a closed source product is making sense. Tax/finacial products etc. We made some products which are depending from LGPL. Sap and MySQL betrayed us by dropping the LGPL license. Sap Officials were lieing to the public in the LGPL point their released FAQ on the release SapDB: Zitate from: http://www.sapdb.org/7.4/sap_db_FAQ.htm#1 "Refer to: Will applications using SAP DB have to be Open Source as well? " "No. Applications are using SAP DB as a service similar to the way they are using the operating system. The programming interfaces are released under the GNU LGPL (Library or Lesser General Public License). Software linked with the programming interfaces is not required to be released as Open Source." This is a fresh addendum, which was not there on the release 2-3 years ago: "This policy will change due to the partnership agreement with MySQL AB. For the latest information see the SAP DB and MySQL page. " http://www.mysql.com/products/index.html https://order.mysql.com/?sub=pg&pg_no=1 So we are doing a fork on SapDB 7.3/7.4 and because LGPL ist dropped by MySQL/SAP. We can not accept this status. We are quitting our enagement here on this list. Fare Well - MaxDB - We don't touch it. We don't support it. We don't use it, unitl it is relicenesed to LGPL. J�rgen automatiX Linux Support Crew - -- J�rgen Sauer - AutomatiX GmbH, +49-4209-4699, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** ** Das Linux Systemhaus - Service - Support - Server - L�sungen ** ** http://www.automatix.de ICQ: #344389676 ** -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/3sdxW7UKI9EqarERAlJMAJ9kff8LVpSG/FS+qt6eJlokACWmiwCgxon9 HIS2tBmNLX3OmqKpnXRW6Zo= =T1M3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- MaxDB Discussion Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/maxdb To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
