Am 06.04.2007 um 17:06 schrieb Stephen Deasey: > It's their code, they can licence it n different ways, and they have. > Your choice of: > > - GPL plus exception for linking other OSI approved licenced code > - purchase a licence from MySQL AB
I do not think we understand each other. If the company X purchased MySQL and designed a driver they use to connect to it (closed source) to what libs are they linking? You say: there are only GPL libraries. So *everybody* is linking to GPL libraries, regardless what they purchased from mysql ab. Is that right? If yes, then everybody is violating GPL. If not then there are different libraries: GPL'ed and non-GPL'ed. Another example: company X writes a driver to connect to mysql instance on a customer site. That instance is a bought from mysql. The company X also bought mysql and linked their driver with purchased code. I assume no problem for X to go to A and sit on his mysql insatance (as both bought the software). The company X goes to customer B. The customer B has NOT bought mysql. Is company X violating GPL by attaching to the myaql instance at the customer B? I still cannot believe this "all mysql libs are GPL". If this is true then *everybody* is violating GPL. I understand they have made an exception to FOSS. But then, only GPL AND FOSS licenses are not violating GPL! All other commercial users ARE!??? Absolutely weird... (Disclaimer: I know you are not a mysql employee nor paid by mysql to answer those questions...) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ naviserver-devel mailing list naviserver-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/naviserver-devel
