On Sep 28, 2006, at 8:42 AM, Rick Harrison wrote:
Hi there,
Postgres is FREE. MySQL is not. If you read the license
carefully this becomes very clear.
Here's what I found on http://www.mysql.com/company/legal/licensing/
commercial-license.html:
1. If you include the MySQL server with an application that is not
licensed under the GPL or GPL-compatible license, you need a
commercial license for the MySQL server.
Since I'm not including the server, N/A
2. 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.
Since no MySQL downloads are needed, N/A
3. If you include one or more of the MySQL drivers in your non-GPL
application (so that your application can run with MySQL), you need a
commercial license for the driver(s) in question. The MySQL drivers
currently include an ODBC driver, a JDBC driver and the C language
library.
Does this mean Runtime Revolution, Inc., pays MySQL, since they
include drivers?
But it does seem Rick is correct, that distributing a standalone that
includes drivers needs a license- or am I misreading it?
I would never recommend giving some other company
control of my company's database. You have no idea
what they might do with the information, and you
can't say for sure that you are really protecting your
customers' data or privacy.
We host with ServerMatrix (http://www.servermatrix.com/), they are
very secure and trustworthy.
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