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From:Warren Young Date:October 17 2006 2:18pm
Subject:Does new Community version change C API licensing?
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I've looked over as much of the information on the new Community vs. 
Enterprise version stuff as I can find, and I don't see an answer to 
this question.  Basically, I want to know if the MySQL C API is still 
dual licensed, under the GPL and the MySQL commercial license.  If so, I 
don't see how this new model is any different than before, except that 
the commercial version is now more expensive.

The practical upshot of the previous licensing scheme, for people that 
used the MySQL C API, was that you either had to buy a MySQL commercial 
license, or release your code under the GPL.  That means MySQL could 
never be "free-of-charge" (quoting today's email from Kaj Arnö) for 
those people.  For that to happen, the C API must be released under a 
more liberal license (LGPL at least), or explicitly made public-domain.

So, has anything substantial changed besides the price of a commercial 
license?
-- 
Warren Young
Maintainer of MySQL++  http://tangentsoft.net/mysql++/
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Does new Community version change C API licensing?Warren Young17 Oct
Re: Does new Community version change C API licensing?Kaj Arnö17 Oct
  • Re: Does new Community version change C API licensing?Warren Young30 Oct