Randolf Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [sNip] >>> In summary, you could be charging them for some very expensive courier >>> services, if for which they don't pay then you won't deliver. =) >> >> Of course a competitor could purchase a copy or get it from a customer >> and set up shop right away selling it too. > > Ah, so even the GPL has a few loop holes! =D
If you read the GPL very carefully, you may find that it was crafted with considerable care and intent. I _don't_ think what MySQL AB is doing with it is quite what was intended, but the various side-effects that you see are, by and large, quite intentional, even the ones that don't play into scenarios of Richard Stallman as "Evil Overlord." -- wm(X,Y):-write(X),write('@'),write(Y). wm('cbbrowne','ntlug.org'). http://www.ntlug.org/~cbbrowne/spreadsheets.html "World domination. Fast." -- Linus Torvalds ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster