Re: [GENERAL] Response from MySql AB (Re: Humor me: Postgresql vs.

2003-10-11 Thread Christopher Browne
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Marc G. Fournier") writes: > my personal question is how well any of this would even stand up in > a court of law, or how would you enforce it? If you get a threatening letter in the mail with all sorts of legal verbiage such that you have to pay for a lawyer to interpret it, t

Re: [GENERAL] Response from MySql AB (Re: Humor me: Postgresql vs.

2003-10-11 Thread Christopher Browne
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Dann Corbit") writes: >> That's true of just about any software license. > > Where is the risk with a Berkeley style license? ... That AT&T might sue you for infringing on their UNIX code. That this actually happened (albeit a long, long time ago) proves that it is a risk th

Re: [GENERAL] Response from MySql AB (Re: Humor me: Postgresql vs.

2003-10-09 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Thu, 9 Oct 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Andrew Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 08:52:36AM -0600, scott.marlowe wrote: > >> Fact: If you write your application to work with ODBC -> MySQL > >> connectivity, you can write a closed source app and sell it for