I think that the rule to have a commercial license or not is quite simple (assuming that you want to be clean with MySQL AB).
If everything is GPL or LGPL and you do not charge anything for the distribution of your application (BTW my interpretations is that the GPL allow you to do so but not MySQL AB) then you do not need a commercial license. Anything else, you need a commercial license. Do not forget that you may need licenses for the APIs supplied by MySQL AB. MySQL and MaxDB are great products and they are very cheap in comparaison of other commercial closed products. Therefore, if you can afford it, buy the license. That way you will allow MySQL AB to continue their efforts to provide their products. Finally, for those who wonder, I do not have any relationship with MySQL AB and the above is my humble opinion. Bernard On Monday 26 January 2004 06:26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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 > >> > >> -- > >> Daniel Dittmar > >> SAP Labs Berlin > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > >> -- > >> MaxDB Discussion Mailing List > >> For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/maxdb > >> To unsubscribe: > >> http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -- > > MaxDB Discussion Mailing List > > For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/maxdb > > To unsubscribe: > > http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- MaxDB Discussion Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/maxdb To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
