----- Original Message -----
From: "Giovanni" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "REALbasic NUG" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, January 20, 2007 9:39 AM
Subject: Re: MySQL plug-in and licensing
Actually, since the middle code is GPL then the applications touching it
will also become GPL. Hence the term VIRAL.
I don't agree on that. You could use a GPL application in your commercial
application, and not pay anything to anybody (and be compliant with GPL
too). Like they stated, it's possible to use a GPL program in an application
you sell as commercial (without to give away its source code) if you don't
make your users think it's something you created, and if you put a note on
your "about box".
That is because the link they talk of is a compiling link, not link at
execution time. That includes any dynamic libraries (.dll on Windows, .so on
Linux, .dynlib on Mac OS X), because when you use one of them you still have
code glued to the executable at compiler time (.lib file).
--
~Kiam
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