On Tue 2003-02-18 at 12:02:59 +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> This is the main reason why I am looking at PostgreSQL at the moment,
> although I've not looked much at Interbase, any good?
>
> Either that, or fork MySQL into FreeMySQL, as we can do under the GPL,
> and not charge our selves :)
Aehem. There seems to be some misconception here. Either your program
is fine with MySQL being GPL or not.
If it is (and your forking example would work for you) either by using
MySQL in a way that your program is not required to be GPL'ed or by
GPL'ing your program, you need no commercial license from MySQL AB
either, and you can already distribute your program with MySQL without
the need of a fork or whatever.
Or your program needs a commercial license, than forking MySQL would
not help, because you still have to adhere to the GPL. The only reason
MySQL AB can hand out a commercial license is because they are also
the Copyright holders, which you aren't even after forking.
HTH,
Benjamin.
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