This is not worse, it is exactly what I have been speculating the whole
time.
I develop and distribute a commercial application and to utilize my
application (if the end user so chooses) they must download a copy of MySQL
then I (meaning me, Dean Davis) need a commercial license for either
(according to your quoted paragraph)
1. MySQL Server
OR
2. MySQL server and MySQL client libraries
OR
3. Just MySQL client libraries.
For my personal situation I believe I need #3, not #1 or #2.
But the question now becomes that if I get a client library license and can
distribute my application closed, is it now REQUIRED that my end user only
use my program to talk with a commercially licensed instance of MySQL
server?
But, here is what is worse (maybe).
Let's say all I need is a client library license and it's inexpensive enough
to afford. Now the problem is that I'm not really using just the MySQL
client library code I'm using the REALBasic plug-in code that wraps around
that client library. That "extra" REALBasic code is GPL independent of the
client library. So, really, my code still needs to be under the GPL because
it is still using GPL REALBasic code.
The only way out of that is to hope REALSoftware doesn't enforce its GPL on
that code by suing you for copyright violations. Which I think is a very
good bet they wouldn't.
On 1/15/07, Ruslan Zasukhin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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Now more worse things:
Read this:
http://www.mysql.com/company/legal/licensing/commercial-license.html
> If you develop and distribute a commercial application and as part of
> utilizing your application, the end-user must download a copy of MySQL;
for
> each derivative work, you (or, in some cases, your end-user) need a
commercial
> license for the MySQL server and/or MySQL client libraries.
>
> If you include one or more of the MySQL drivers in your non-GPL
application
> (so that your application can run with MySQL), you need a commercial
license
> for the driver(s) in question. The MySQL drivers currently include an
ODBC
> driver, a JDBC driver and the C language library.
Note that paragraphs says "YOU NEED"
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