It is the applications developers resposibility to make sure they are complient. What RD did is an industry standard.
I do not believe that runtime is done any different as it is not the the way to do business. Rb gives you a database, beon that is your responsibility as a developer to make sure your complient before deployment. Just because you can do it does not mean you have a license to deploy it. By the way this is true for sdk's, plugins and controls. -----Original Message----- From: "Dean Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "REALbasic NUG" <[email protected]> Sent: 1/14/2007 10:00 AM Subject: Re: MySQL and RB (warning) I was looking at this myself since this thread started since I just started using the MySQL plugin in one of my programs. It would have been nice had RB explicitly said something like "Danger! You probably can only use this plug-in in a open source GPL project." when they released it. Runtime Revolution is a MySQL partner so if you buy RR you get to link to MySQL free of licensing fees as far as I can tell from their web site. So I know it's possible for a language tool make to make it easy for their users. I appears to be that in order to use the MySQL plug-in from RB in closed software you'd need to buy a client library license from MySQL. No price is available for that on the web so you'd have to contact sales at MySQL to figure the price. I did read somewhere that it may only be something like $100/yr. but that is speculation. I've added a feature request to have RB handle licensing for its users. <http://www.realsoftware.com/feedback/viewreport.php?reportid=yjdbsgrf> Dean Davis _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives of this list here: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html> _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives of this list here: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
