Don't forget:

Commercial -> Apache Tomcat (ASF licence, that permits commercial, and is compatible 
with
GPL) -> GPL driver -> MaxDB

and

Commercial -> JBoss (LGPL, that permits commercial, and is compatible with GPL) -> GPL
driver -> MaxDB

And, of course, what if people are not distributing the database, but the customer 
want's to
use MaxDB with the commercial software? GPL license talks about "distributing" the 
software,
but people are't doing this. What if the people ditribute own software, but not MaxDB
neither drivers?

Where are the '"freedom" as in speech'? Ok, you are free ONLY if you don't have 
freedom to
choice the license you want.


Can someone clarifies this (I think the problem is bigger than just MaxDB licensing. 
May be
whe should contact FSF to clarify this).

M2c,

Edson Richter

> Hello,
>
> It would be also interesting to clarify the licence issues for the following 
> configuration:
>       Commercial software -> LGPL driver (re-written) -> MaxDB
> (usage and distribution)
>
> Emmanuel
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Dittmar, Daniel
>> Sent: lundi 26 janvier 2004 11:47
>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Subject: RE: License of MaxDB
>>
>>
>> We've asked MySQL AB to clarify these licence issues, namely
>> - distributing commercial software written using the client libraries
>> - using MaxDB with this commercial software
>> - using MaxDB as part of web services.
>>
>> We hope that we get an answer soon and will post it to this
>> mailing list.
>>
>> Daniel Dittmar
>>
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