On Aug 12, 2004, at 2:38, Issac Goldstand wrote:
What if a company hires me to build an application for them. They
already
have MySQL downloaded and installed. Do I/they need a license?
What if the software is open-source, but not free?
Hi Issac,
We always recommend that proprietary applications
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> Essentially the spirit of the license is, if a company builds a system of
> some kind where the database facilities are provided by MySQL and wish to
> sell that system as a whole witho
On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 05:43:16PM +0200, Leonardo Francalanci <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> > If you develop a product, say, some kind of online shopping
> > system that you
> > distribute on a CD which installs Linux, Apache, MysQL, PHP and
> > your App and
> > distribute that, then you probably
> If you develop a product, say, some kind of online shopping
> system that you
> distribute on a CD which installs Linux, Apache, MysQL, PHP and
> your App and
> distribute that, then you probably should be paying for a license. This is
> because instead of you handing over full code (and it's rig
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> Essentially the spirit of the license is, if a company builds a system of
> some kind where the database facilities are provided by MySQL and wish to
> sell that system as a whole without a
Essentially the spirit of the license is, if a company builds a system of
some kind where the database facilities are provided by MySQL and wish to
sell that system as a whole without a GPL or other accepted open license
then they will be required to purchase a license for each copy of the server
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On Aug 11, 2004, at 2:42, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thank you Zak for correcting me.
Much appreciated ;-)
Hi Nils,
Glad to help!
Cheers!
--zak
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On Aug 11, 2004, at 1:21, DebugasRu wrote:
1)
LM> If your software is licensed under either the GPL-compatible Free
Software
LM> License as defined by the Free Software Foundation or approved by
OSI, then
LM> use our GPL licensed version.
2)
LM> If you distribute a proprietary application in any
