-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 > The change is made to avoid lots of discussions about when the GPL > is effective. Basically we follow the same rules as we always have > about when we want people to pay us for a commercial license but > now we have a better legal ground to base it on. I hope it will > save us (especially me since I have become the MySQL licensing guru > :-) lots of discussion about who has to pay and who can use the GPL > version. And of course this is totally in the line with what the > Free Software Foundation and RMS wants since it spreads free > software. > > We can still make exceptions and allow free use if there is a good > reason for it (But not for "I like to make money without freeing my > code or paying you" like reasons). > > So the goal is to get money out of the people who distribute non > OpenSource application using MySQL. We need the income for the much > larger development team we now have. And the cost of running a real > company instead of the administrative mess that Monty and I had > earlier (And that mess was very very bad for my ease of mind).
Does this also apply to non-open-source but free applications? For example, we give away Escapade for free - always have, always will, at least for the minimal version of the product. If we develop a non-free version of Escapade that uses mysqlclient, what happens then? We also distribute statically-linked and dynamically-linked versions of the product, and I would be interested in knowing MySQL's position on this issue in regards to licensing. - -- Ed Carp, N7EKG http://www.pobox.com/~erc 214/986-5870 Licensed Texas Peace Officer Computer Crime Investigation Consultant Director, Software Development Escapade Server-Side Scripting Engine Development Team Pensacola - Dallas - London - Dresden http://www.squishedmosquito.com "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed-- and thus clamorous to be let to safety-- by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." - -- H. L. Mencken -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 6.5.8 for non-commercial use <http://www.pgp.com> iQA/AwUBPZI6FkbhwAGg7YRjEQI/6gCfcnE/vxjAdVXrUs3LTuNUafxRb9sAn3kT A86wjGjw2TYgqhPfPi9V6bna =P6pl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
