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: Nicko van Someren <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 17:07:11 +0000
On 6 Jan 2004, at 16:43, Cameron Hayne wrote:
On 1/5/04 2:40 PM, "Shawn Erickson" <email@hidden> wrote:
Stopping the distribution of a product while you replace the
GPL-covered code is really what scares folks. Talk about huge risk for
a commercial software product.
This is what feeds folks fears about the GPL.
It's been said many times before but I think needs to be said again:
This is no different than what would happen if you accidentally
included
proprietary source code (e.g. from Microsoft) in your commercial
product.
You would have to stop distribution of your product while you
rectified the
problem. The only difference is that it is *somewhat* easier to get
access
to GPL'd source code than it is to get access to Microsoft source
code, and
hence "accidental" inclusion might be more likely.
There is another difference. If you include someone's proprietary code
into your system then you basically have no choice but to come to an
agreement (possibly amicably, possibly in court) as to how to deal with
it. In the case that you accidentally include GPLed code into your
product you can redeem yourself either by settling with the copyright
owner OR by releasing your derived work under the GPL. You are in no
way obliged to the do so, but if you don't you'll have to settle with
the owner of the code some other way.
Nicko
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