On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 17:46, John Griffin wrote: > Hello David, > > Since you were kind enough to clarify some matters on licensing I was > hoping you would also be open to suggestions. Instead of charging a > flat fee for each copy of MySQL that is resold why not charge a > percentage up to a certain point. It might make it a bit easier for > developers with inexpensive applications to choose your product. If I > know that MySQL is going to be, for example, a constant ten percent of > my sale cost I can price more competitively for the market. The is > defiantly a boon for developers who are selling applications for the > forty to sixty dollar market. As they say, ten percent of something is > more than ten percent of nothing.
Well we have always done percentage deals in some cases. The important point is that negotiating a percentage deals takes some human time. So it has to be a minimum total amount for us to make a profit on it. Sales people need to be paid to! > If this pricing scheme will not work for MySQL can you please explain why? I am > genuinely curious. It depends on the total amount of money involved. /David > John > > -----Original Message----- > From: David Axmark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 2:14 PM > To: Damir Dezeljin > Cc: MySQL List > Subject: Re: InterBase vs. Mysql > > > On Wed, 2003-02-19 at 08:14, Damir Dezeljin wrote: > > Firstly excuse my poor english ;))) > > > > I read the entire mail thread. I'm useing MySQL for our own data storage > > (I use it to store our oceanographic data for internal use) - I guess that > > I don't need a commercial license for this. > > > > I have another question ... if I will do a commercial program in future > > which will use MySQL as backend, do I need to buy only one commercial > > license to link the program or does any customer need a commercial > > license if I don't want that my code to be GPLed? > > You need to buy a license for each distributed/sold version of your > product that contains MySQL. > > But there are no limits on the number of clients that connects to that > MySQL server of number of CPUs in the machine or so (like with our big > proprietary competitors). > > /David (MySQL Co-Founder) -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
