On 17/07/2006, at 12:57 PM, Dr Gerard Hammond wrote:
If I sell a commercial product ( eg. a RB db app that contains the
RB MySQL plugin) to a business that has already installed their own
copy of MySQL and they use my app against their MySQL server, who
pays the MySQL fee?
••••
I don't have an answer but the MySQL licensing has always been a bit
mystical.
An RB developer could ship a solution to a client running Mac OS X
Server which has MySQL running by default. What's the requirement?
The client hasn't had to download and install - nor has the developer
shipped it - it was shipped as part of the OS.
My understanding (which could be wrong) is that if MySQL was
*required* for a commercial app (eg. your app runs ONLY on MySQL)
then it was subject to full commercial fees however, f your app can
run on something else (SQLite, Postgres etc) as well as MySQL, then
that stipulation is reduced or negated.
cheers
kim
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