Thats why when someone asks me what DB they should use, I always point them to postgreSQL...
I prefer to use BSD or MIT licenses over GPL and I never understood dual licensing. software politics are hard On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 4:42 PM, Richard Gaskin <[email protected]> wrote: > MySQL'a dual licensing has been the source of a lot of confusion for quite a > long time, and what few notes can be found at their site about when their > license requires a license doesn't help a great many people make an > appropriate determination. > > I've written them to get clarification on three specific usage scenarios > that are not uncommon, and while their sales staff was quick to reply to my > interest in possibly getting a license I've not heard back from them on > whether it's actually needed in the scenarios I'm considering. > > > Here's an example of the confusion, from JoelOnSoftware: > <http://discuss.fogcreek.com/joelonsoftware5/default.asp?cmd=show&ixPost=155640&ixReplies=20> > > This comment there tries to help sort it out: > > Most of the things mentioned here are irrelevant. > Read http://www.mysql.com/products/licensing/commercial-license.html > more specifically: > > "If you develop and distribute a commercial application and > as part of utilizing your application, the end-user must > download a copy of MySQL; for each derivative work, you (or, > in some cases, your end-user) need a commercial license for > the MySQL server and/or MySQL client libraries." > > Unfortunately that URL no longer points to the material cited, so you have > to wade through the links there to try to find guidance on how the license > applies to a given use. > > Here's a scenario I can't figure out: if I make a DB on my server using my > own proprietary code running on top of MySQL, and I sell subscriptions to > this proprietary system, do the "per seat" definitions for MySQL licensing > apply to my customers as "seats" for my DB use? Still waiting to hear back > from them on that. > > > It's too bad they don't make it simpler for folks to understand when it's > necessary to purchase a license and how much it will cost. It's confusing > for the market and no doubt they lose a great many sales based on the > near-ubiquitous -- if erroneous -- presumption that it's always gratis. Free > as in freedom != free as in beer. ;) > > > Ruslan, I couldn't find the original post you quoted. Where did this thread > originate? > > It would be ironic in a discussion of copyright protection to have material > copied without permission from the author. ;) > > -- > Richard Gaskin > Fourth World Media Corporation > ___________________________________________________________ > [email protected] http://www.FourthWorld.com > > > > Ruslan Zasukhin wrote: > >> On 2/15/09 1:41 PM, "Thorsten Hohage" <thohage at genericobjects.de> >> wrote: >> >> Hi Thorsten, >> >> This is very interesting and I should say new info for me. >> >> I believe many times on RB and Revolution list (especially) people express >> point that they can use mySQL of their ISPs for free. >> >> Info which you provide below changes things a lots. >> I will CC this to REV list for info. >> >> >>>>> But mySQL is not totally free, even when used at an ISP! Many, many >>>>> customer of ISPs go in a big trap, because they used the offered mySQL >>>>> licence from the ISP for their commercial use what is in sense of >>>>> mySQL >>>>> legals not allowed. >>>> >>>> Why you think so? >> >>> Because I read and discussed the given mySQL licence terms when >>> dealing with that issues (and I break them like anybody else :-)) >>> >>> The fact that mySQL is free for ISPs and they put them on their >>> servers does NOT mean everybody being a customer for such a package >>> can use it for free! >>> >>> Of course e.g. when you're going to use let us say Joomla, then Joomla >>> is Open Source, too and AFAIK then your content will not be some kind >>> of "Open Content". >>> >>> But when you develop a software using this hosted mySQL, then you must >>> decide PAY or Open Source it, and it doesn't matter if this is hosted >>> at your ISP or not. >> > > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > -- http://www.andregarzia.com All We Do Is Code. _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
