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: Cameron Hayne <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 11:19:48 -0500
On 12/22/03 10:25 PM, "Ed Watkeys" <email@hidden> wrote:
>
* 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.
>
* As of quite a while ago, the server side of MySQL was GPL'd.
Just as a clarification:
You can use software components that are GPL'd without any implication on
your code as long as the GPL components remain separate components. Thus you
can use the MySQL server as part of a larger project without any implication
on the client code you write. I believe that it is not necessary to use the
client libraries provided by MySQL - you can write your own client libraries
that send SQL queries to the database.
The original poster had asked about some products which provided helper
applications for use with MySQL. Such applications would not need to be
GPL'd unless they linked with GPL'd libraries. Merely interacting with the
MySQL server has no more implications on your code than does running under
the Linux OS.
--
Cameron Hayne (email@hidden)
Hayne of Tintagel
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