On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 05:01:55PM -0700, David Schleef wrote: > > My client wants to retain all rights to their software, and is not > > willing to release their software in any `free' software fashion. > > > > Also, in order to manage problems and maintain SLA's, this software is > > to be sold as an integral piece of a system -- somewhat of a blackbox. > > In other words, their customers will pay one basic price, and receive an > > installed hardware server, on which Debian and software are installed > > turnkey. > > > > Everything other than the proprietary software is straight DEB > > installed, so their is no issue of distributing modified `free' > > software. However, the MySQL licensing model seems to indicate that a > > licensing fee is due them; and, I wonder about others. > > I am not aware of any MySQL problems; can you give a pointer to > what you are concerned about?
MySQL's interface library was changed to GPL, from LGPL. This isn't a no- commecial-use (which would be non-free), but it has the same effect in most cases. I seem to recall there being an LGPL fork, though. Alternatively, if you're not yet set on a database, you could use postgresql; it's BSD-licensed. -- Glenn Maynard
