But what I really ask myself, what is with your deployed software?
It's out and the customers have it in their hands, what if they
pointed out, that you're using the mySQL-Library and request the
source code? Furthermore, what if a competitor got knowledge of this
fact, e.g. while trying to acquire your customer and he asked you to
release your source code!!!!!!!
I'm not a lawyer, so take this with a grain of salt. From what I've read,
nobody can actually force you to release your own source code because you
used GPL source.
They can force you to stop distributing the version with GPL source and,
potentially, recover monetary damages for what has already been distributed.
Given MySQL's licensing, that alone could be bad enough for a small business
or shareware author. But they can't actually force your source to be opened.
One of the articles I've read with this opinion is at:
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20031214210634851
A chilling thought just occured to me. Didn't some of the RB200x releases
have a problem whereby they would incorporate too many, or all, plugins in
an application? Could there be apps out there linked with the MySQL plugin
even if they don't offer any database functionality what-so-ever? (Though I
guess in that case there would be no real damages or monetary reward and,
most likely, no one would even know to sue.)
Daniel L. Taylor
Taylor Design
Computer Consulting & Software Development
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.taylor-design.com
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