On June 5, 2003 17:52, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > >Fourth, the issue causing the most visible debate within the SAP DB > >community seems to be the change from LGPL to GPL as the licensing > > scheme. Bear in mind that neither SAP AG nor MySQL AB are > > charities. > > When will you announce prices?
Dear Wojtek, I do not know yet. > >Fifth, community: Both SAP AG and MySQL AB genuinely value the > >contributions, the opinions, and the activity of the SAP DB user > >community. > > How can you accept contributions? If you accepted them, then you'd be > unable to distribuite your database(s) under the commercial license. > Or maybe you 'genuinely value' them, but won't merge into your > sources? We ask contributors to share their copyright with us. This allows us to own the complete copyright to the database so that we can use the contributions under a commercial license. Of course, contributors still own their code and can use it for whatever purpose they choose, including reselling the code, etc. Cheers! --zak _______________________________________________ sapdb.general mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://listserv.sap.com/mailman/listinfo/sapdb.general
