== START OF FORWARDED MESSAGE == Hello Christian,
Thanks for your question! On 05.08.03 at 15:00 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello MaxDB team of MySQL AB > > In your posting on sapdb.general today you wrote: > > > 4. Licensing and the availability of old versions > > > > MaxDB will follow the MySQL dual licensing policy, > > which in short is "if you're free, we're free -- if you're > > commercial, we're commercial". > > As I understand it, this means: > - If I am a private user and want to store information > about my poststamp collection in a MaxDB instance, > I won't have to pay anything to MySQL AB. > - If I am a programmer that has written a poststamp > collection management software and I sell it for $20, > I will have to pay something to MySQL AB. Correct. > But what if I am a programmer working for company X > and writing a tailormade software only for them that > makes use of MaxDB, but is not for sale? > Does company X have to pay for the use of MaxDB? As long as Company X doesn't distribute it, Company X is free to use MaxDB with the program written by you, as a programmer employed by Company X, under the GPL. No payment. Of course, Company X is also *welcome* to buy a commercial license with traditional commercial terms, such as for Oracle. Company X will then get the warranties that go with commercial licenses, but as long as Company X doesn't distribute the software working with MaxDB, it doesn't violate the GPL. If you work independently with Company X as your customer, for which you create a tailored program, you are probably distributing at least one copy of MaxDB server to Company X. In this case, you need to buy a MaxDB license (or are in charge of making Company X buy a MaxDB license), the cost of which will probably be a small fraction of the total invoice you send to Company X. When in doubt, buy a license. They're not expensive, and it's fair to contribute. > How much will the price be, calculated on which basis? We have not yet determined pricing and will post that information, once we've done so. A MySQL Server license costs 440 dollars per server; expect the MaxDB pricing to be more than that, but *far* closer to MySQL than to Oracle pricing. > Does this depend on whether company X makes > publically available the source code of the application > that uses MaxDB or not? If company X also publishes the stamp collection software under the GPL, freely downloadable and with source code just as MaxDB and MySQL, then company X is free to distribute MaxDB's GPL version. Short version: in that case, the price tag is zero. > Thank you for providing me with this important > information No problem! Hope I answered your questions to your satisfaction. Feel free to share the answer with the list, if you wish. Kaj Arn� == END OF FORWARDED MESSAGE == -- COMPUTERBILD 15/03: Premium-e-mail-Dienste im Test -------------------------------------------------- 1. GMX TopMail - Platz 1 und Testsieger! 2. GMX ProMail - Platz 2 und Preis-Qualit�tssieger! 3. Arcor - 4. web.de - 5. T-Online - 6. freenet.de - 7. daybyday - 8. e-Post _______________________________________________ sapdb.general mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://listserv.sap.com/mailman/listinfo/sapdb.general
