The entire thread context is "using a library" I have never said what
your talking about.
In the context of MySQL, if the plugin is GPL so will the application
unless you get special licensing from the HOLDER of the GPL license.
This is the entire argument. No one, including me, is arguing that.
GPL was intended for FREE apps, not commercial. The whole reason why
GNU decided to revise and make LGPL is so that programmers can more
freely or with added cost use the libraries in programs that are going
to be used commercially. If anyone uses a GPL library to develop
commercial apps, and they are not the developer of such library, they
can find them selfs in much legal copyright trouble. Which is why this
thread is still going, to find a better solution.
There is a costly difference between GPL and LGPL.
Note: My attorneys wont allow me to touch any GPL libraries unless we
have the right license for commercial distribution. So I wont use GPL
for commercial distributions of our apps, instead, I normally contact
the license holder and ask for a different type of licensing that will
allow me to distribute my apps without any issues later. Sometimes the
licensing changes are easy and free, most times you have to 1) create
such functionality yourself or 2) pay the piper. I have done both, while
respecting the GPL license holders who by the way want the apps to be
open source and in most cases free.
Kiam wrote:
----- Original Message -----
From: "Norman Palardy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "REALbasic NUG" <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2007 7:36 PM
Subject: Re: MySQL plug-in and licensing
It's called OpenDarwin :)
What they dont give you the source for is the finder and all the
layers on top of OpenDarwin
And the use of OpenDarwin inside Mac OS X doesn't make the full Mac OS
X GPL.
I think the interpretation of Giovanni is in contrast of what the GPL
says.
The keyword here is "exchange of internal data structure". If I pass a
string that rappresents a protocol comand (like "GET /index.html"), I
cannot say I passed an internal data structure. The same thing can be
said of a program which passes a SQL command to a proxy that
translates it into calls to a GPL library.
--
~Kiam
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