On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 1:48 PM, Paul E. G. Lynch <[email protected]>wrote:
> MySQL's license is GPL. ActiveRecord, which (I presume) uses MySQL's > client libraries, is under the MIT license. How does ActiveRecord > avoid being GPL? > I'm no attorney but I believe the answer is that ActiveRecord is not modifying MySQL but is a separate framework for accessing it as well as a number of other databases. You still need a copy of MySQL if you want to use the part that can access it. The FAQ for GPL/GNU explains more in the section on "Using programs released under the GNU licenses when writing other programs". http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html B. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
