--- Edson Carlos Ericksson Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, this is the distorcion caused I say: > > <sic> > Just the change from "GPL+LGPL" to "MySql way" is the principal that > community dislike (well, in real I just can talk by me)... > </sic> > > We can't say that MySQL way is GPL way, because they are more restrictive > (as far as I undestand).
It's also my understanding that the MySQL license is more restrictive than the GPL alone, because the MySQL license covers internal distribution as well as external distribution. I don't see anything illegal or immoral about the MySQL license, but it's one of the reasons why I refuse to jump on their bandwagon (along with the technical inferiority of their RDBMS, and the blatant distortions that issue forth from their marketing department). I don't trust MySQL AB. What do you suppose will happen when their database products have grown to dominate the low to mid range of the market, when millions of commercial users have written millions of applications dependent on MySQL? Will their prices remain reasonable, or will there be a sudden, dramatic price hike once MySQL has enough users on the hook? __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM). http://calendar.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ sapdb.general mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://listserv.sap.com/mailman/listinfo/sapdb.general
