On Jan 20, 2007, at 10:11 AM, Giovanni wrote:
is possible they would sue, but I do not believe that they would win.
This falls under the deep pockets theory. They have deeper pockets
than you. Do you want to risk it?
Its not like the technology is so impressive and patented. if
someone build the plugin from the protocol rather then from the
source the copyright and licensing to the source would not be able
to touch it as the ONLY protected issue here would be their source
code, not the actual protocol.
If we actually paid like someone suggested $20 to $50, I am pretty
sure that MySQL would possibly find a way to say that we are not
meeting their licensing requirements.
According to the interpretation of the License they currently have,
if you own a commercial license on a server, then you should be OK
as long as you are on a licensed server. However, according with
what sales told Davis, every connecting program must also be
license because the plugin is currently GPL.
What a mess.
And a great reason to stay away. If your customers insist on it.
Tell them the scoop and pass the costs on to them
Mark
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