>On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 7:20 PM, Nico Coesel<ncoe...@dealogic.nl> wrote: >>> >>>I *know* there are hardware vendors out there that >>>are aching to use OpenOCD together with closed source target support, >>>and they *would* find any tiny loophole and throw money at lawyers to >>>exploit it. >> >> Sorry to hijack this message. The whole situation made me wonder about MySQL >> several times. The MySQL license says that it is free when GPL is respected >> but you must pay if you want to use it in a commercial / closed source >> product. > >So you're saying that someone might try to have it both ways? > >Keep anything *they* make closed source, yet demand to be able >to freely use OpenOCD GPL for the stuff that they don't have(target >support) or that OpenOCD provides for free or does better.
AFAIK the MySQL license works the other way around. If you use MySQL in a software product (link against MySQL) you either release/publish your software product under GPL or pay a license fee if you want to keep it closed source. Nico Coesel
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