I had a big project two years ago that was going to rely on MySQL. I had our attorneys review their licensing agreements and then talk to MySQL AB's legal eagles. $5,000 in lawyer fees later, nobody could answer my question about licensing. The application is now happily running on PostgreSQL.
I use MySQL for my own apps on my Dreamhost-hosted sites because Dreamhost has dealt with the licensing issue and they're all personal use anyway. For everything else, I'm more comfortable with PostgreSQL. Yes, I know all the arguments about why MySQL is better. I don't care. I choose not to use software from a company that can't write a clear license and can't answer what I think are clear questions about their restrictions. On 4/20/06, Mark Wieder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Lynn- > > Thursday, April 20, 2006, 3:52:58 PM, you wrote: > > >> In my case, I have a for-profit client whose product goes out > >> to non-profit clients of theirs. The MySQL licensing gets > >> pretty dicey there. I don't pretend to understand whether > >> anyone needs to buy a commercial license, what kind, and > >> who's responsible for taking care of it. > > > Id pass the buck to whomever writes the checks ;-) > > In that case, you'd be misunderstanding the situation. Scenario: you > write a spiffy app that goes out to hundreds of non-profit clients, > and you charge them a nominal fee for it and for support. If it relies > on MySQL for a backend server, are you responsible for getting a > commercial license or are the clients who run and maintain it? And > given that the clients are non-profits who may be entitled to a free > commercial license, would it not be counterintuitive for the developer > to pay for a commercial license rather than telling the clients to get > their own? > > -- > -Mark Wieder > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dan Shafer, Information Product Consultant and Author http://www.shafermedia.com Get my book, "Revolution: Software at the Speed of Thought" >From http://www.shafermediastore.com/tech_main.html _______________________________________________ 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
