I've personally emailed them in the past. Their response was for me to by a license. When I asked them about creating my own client without reading their docs or source code, they still insisted I buy a license.
Anyone who knows the GPL well, knows the communication layer is NOT covered by GPL. Saying the protocol is proprietary by covering it by the GPL is a total load of poo. If someone wants to reverse engineer the protocol and write their own client, they can. i.e. the Samba team. On 2/22/07, Barry Newton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
At 05:00 PM 2/22/2007, mos wrote: > On the other hand, if you developed a web application that ran > on MySQL (an accounting package say) and you want to distribute it > to 1000 MySQL users without giving them your source code, then you > will need a MySQL AB license for each copy ($595,000 in total) even > if you give the software away for free. The last line of the license notice reads: "Contact MySQL AB if you need clarification of these terms or if you need to ask about alternative arrangements. " This kind of suggests to me that they're willing to talk. I expect that as long as you're willing to pay *something*, there's probably a lot of room for negotiation. It's distinctly not in their interest to eliminate collateral development efforts. And there are already several products out there which do connect with MySQL and cost < $100. Barry Newton -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
