Re: People who develop with MySQL and/or other GPL based code
Re: People who develop with MySQL and/or other GPL based code
- Subject: Re: People who develop with MySQL and/or other GPL based code
- From: Ruslan Zasukhin <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 18:59:24 +0200
on 12/23/03 6:19 PM, Cameron Hayne at email@hidden wrote:
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On 12/22/03 10:25 PM, "Ed Watkeys" <email@hidden> wrote:
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> * MySQL >=4.0 can be used gratis only in conjunction with GPL'd
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> software since the C client library is GPL'd.
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> * As of quite a while ago, the server side of MySQL was GPL'd.
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Just as a clarification:
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You can use software components that are GPL'd without any implication on
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your code as long as the GPL components remain separate components. Thus you
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can use the MySQL server as part of a larger project without any implication
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on the client code you write.
Cameron, not sure what you mean...but
If you develop e.g. GameApp that
embed client of mySQL,
and require mySQL server of course.
And you start distribute this GameApp to your customers
And on your CD / archive is located mySQL server itself
You MUST pay them embedded license ($180-$450) per copy of server.
IF you do not distribute server included with your solution you do not need
pay them. But now your users must SELF download, install, and set up Server.
Can you expect this from dummy users?
This is where Embedded Valentina server offer significant alternative for
Application Developers.
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I believe that it is not necessary to use the client libraries provided by
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MySQL - you can write your own client libraries that send SQL queries to the
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database.
In theory yes.
Cameron, there is NO sense, write own client to access Server.
You will spend weeks and months on this.
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Best regards,
Ruslan Zasukhin [ I feel the need...the need for speed ]
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