But I'm afraid that MySQL builds its bussiness model on this 'feature' of the GPL - you can't build non-GPL software against it, so my hopes of this happening are gone.
Please, SAP, reconsider this decission. Sap-DB puts the SAP logo in machines that would never see it if Sap-DB wasn't in the market - machines that would show an Oracle or IMB logo instead of SAP's.
I'm proud of having SAP-DB database servers, they work well and they are respected. If it was Sap who sold Sap-DB, I could think about buying it. But I won't be able to BUY a commercial license of "MySQL Enterprise Edition" - MySQL's brand is the worst you can look at in the database market. And I *WON'T* be able to release my source code with a GPL license - having non-disclosure agreements makes this difficult ;)
Flemming Frandsen escribi�:
Hi, I'm one of the first (if not the first) OSS user of SAP DB.
I have been putting a lot of work into debugging the perl client, even before the full sources were published and I was later responsible for making using SAP DB from Perl stable via the ODBC interface.
Eventhough there is no (or very little) actual code remaining in the SAP DB that I wrote I still feel that I have contributed to the value of SAP DB by advocating its use and making it possible to use it in production from Perl.
I made these contributions so that I could use SAP DB as the backend of my non-Free application, so the news that the license of the client liberary is going to be changed from LGPL to GPL as part of the mysql deal is very bad news to me and a lot of the other SAP DB users.
Changing the license from LGPL to GPL is entirely legal, but it still feels very unfair to remove our freedom to use the product we feel helped create, even if the majority of our contributions were in the form of support, advocacy, testing, bugreporting and code in third party software.
What I (and as far as I can tell a lot of the current users) ask is that the client liberaries can continue to be licensed under the LGPL and not change to be GPL licensed.
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