> Ruslan Zasukhin wrote: > > IF you use e.g. free mySQL (which is not free btw!) then make YOUR > > software free also. May be this will be a fair step? > > If my understanding of their dual-license scheme is correct, > it's more than fair, it's actually required: > > <http://www.mysql.com/company/legal/licensing/> > > The usage terms are admittedly still somewhat vague to me, > but in my limited understanding it follows the trend of other > dual-use licensing to ask for in-kind usage: usage in free > things is free, usage in non-free things is non-free.
Wearing my Paradigma hat here - that pretty much sums it up, but the key is actually knowing for certain if what you have in mind qualifies for free - they revised their license after SQL 4.x which eliminated a lot of what was considered free before. mySQL AB has done a thorough job of stating that any potentially commercial use, you are going to have to pay their commercial fee. This was considered very carefully in pricing Valentina. Best regards, Lynn Fredricks President Paradigma Software, Inc Joining Worlds of Information Deploy True Client-Server Database Solutions Royalty Free with Valentina Developer Network http://www.paradigmasoft.com _______________________________________________ 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
