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> 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.
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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
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