Tuviah Snyder wrote: > It says: > >> If you include one of the MySQL drivers in your non Open Source application > (so that your application can run with >MySQL), you need a commercial > licence for the driver(s) in question. The MySQL drivers currently include > an >ODBC driver, a JDBC driver and the C language library. > So will we have to remove the libmysql.dll driver from the Revolution > distribution? The revdb database driver just links to this library at > runtime. > > I thought MySQL was open source, doesn't sound open and free to me.
There's the insideous seduction of the GPL: you can us free stuff only in free stuff. It becomes commercial stuff when used in commercial stuff. That's why the BSD license is considered more "business friendly", and why Raymond and Stallman don't get along. ;) I've been thinking of releasing components under GPL specifically for that reason: they gain noteriety but pose no commercial threat, at least until someone comes along with enough money to be able to afford building something with it on uncompensated time. The irony of GPL is that it can unfairly favor the wealthy: common workers need to eat and pay rent, leaving only those with sufficient wealth for significant leisure projects able to work on GPL stuff. Once this wealth is applied to an application category, "free" can have the same effect as the antitrust violation of "dumping", driving working people out of the market leaving only the product driven by unrelated wealth. Sorry Mr. Stallman, but that's what happens in a "gift economy" when programmers are the only ones gifting while landlords and grocers still expect to be paid. ;) -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation ___________________________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.FourthWorld.com Tel: 323-225-3717 AIM: FourthWorldInc _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
