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Pat Ballard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Suppose i distribute MySQL-4.1 with an appliance,

> which is a sealed x86 machine running a Linux

> distribution made by another entity (ok, it's Red

> Hat). I don't write any code that's directly linked to

> MySQL, I'm only using the existing php-mysql, etc.,

> packages already provided by the distribution, plus

> some third-party apps that are under GPL and link to

> MySQL (applications that access MySQL, not written by

> me, but are Open Source GPL projects off SourceForge

> and other places - i just bundle them with the

> appliance).

> Any code that I write personally is PHP and sits on

> top of the php-mysql module provided by Red Hat.

> 

> The end-user has no direct visibility to the database,

> in fact, the end-user might never know it's MySQL -

> all that is visible is the PHP interface, via Apache.

> 

> In this case, what's the license? Is MySQL still free

> (under GPL)?

> 



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