From: Lenz Grimmer Date: March 21 2003 10:36am Subject: Re: [packagers] Question about silent install and license List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/packagers/98 Message-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, Per Thomas Jahr wrote: > But what about other licenses than GPL? > > According to [1] it says: > > "If your application is licensed under GPL or compatible OSI license > approved by MySQL AB, you are free and welcome to ship any GPL software > of MySQL AB with your application." > > As I understand this we can choose one of the OSI compatible licenses > for our code and still ship MySQL. Here's David Axmark's take: [SNIP] > I assume they can not do this, if their application is not GPL, correct? Yes, But we have said if they release under a OSI approved license that we can allow it. > How to handle such cases? By saying they need to have a OSI approved license and ask us [SNIP] So, if your code is under an OSI approved license, you should be fine - just get in contact with David via the above mail address to double check. Thanks! Bye, LenZ - -- For technical support contracts, visit https://order.mysql.com/?ref=mlgr __ ___ ___ ____ __ / |/ /_ __/ __/ __ \/ / Mr. Lenz Grimmer / /|_/ / // /\ \/ /_/ / /__ MySQL AB, Production Engineer /_/ /_/\_, /___/\___\_\___/ Hamburg, Germany <___/ www.mysql.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://quantumlab.net/pine_privacy_guard/ iD8DBQE+eusUSVDhKrJykfIRAg3OAJ979G2OC88JK9X+SAEFaRsoD7G9+wCbB8SP 8tioG1odW06Py+FgzJyw9jc= =NRcr -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----