On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 01:26:15PM -0500, gerald_clark wrote: > > Steve Richter wrote: > > >exactly! Is Linux distributed under the same type of license as MySql? If > >I sell software that runs on linux I dont have to give away my code, right? > >To use my software you first have to install no charge Linux and MySql. Why > >would that not be permitted? > > Because the MySQL license does not allow you to use it free with > commercial software that requires MySQL. If you are running > commercial software that requires MySQL you must buy a license.
And this is where the confusion start. MySQL is covered by the GPL. So is Linux. Jeremy -- Jeremy D. Zawodny | Perl, Web, MySQL, Linux Magazine, Yahoo! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://jeremy.zawodny.com/ [book] High Performance MySQL -- http://highperformancemysql.com/ -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
