On Tue, 2004-01-13 at 14:54, District Webmaster wrote: > Quoting DTucker: > > "Also, much GPLed software is not free for commercial use. If you use > MySQL > in you business, you have to pay for it." > > Is this really the case? I was under the impression that you only had to > pay for it when you used it as a part of commercial software offereings > or service -- but that you could use it as a standalone product in your > business under the GPL. I was also under the impression that the > for-a-fee version of MySQL was sold under a different license (and, > therefore, not GPLed software in that case).
You're right. He's either knowingly lying to us about this, or he's just misled. Either way we can see that a large amount of education needs to done yet. Michael > > Can anyone clarify for me? > > ____________________ > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list -- Michael L Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
