site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev@lists.apple.com 26 jul 2005 kl. 10.21 skrev Mark Gilbert: -- Finlay This is an interesting point. Apple uses the GPL as licence. _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-dev mailing list (Darwin-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-dev/site_archiver%40lists.appl... Other people have answered your question from a technical perspective, but also be aware that linking with the MySQL client library may impose licensing requirements (i.e. require you to GPL your application). Not completely true. MySQL has added an exception for some other opensource licences, even if incompatible with the GPL. My app is a commercial product - and would assume that the user will be connecting to MySQL pre-installed on Mac OSX Server (which presumably Apple have a license for ?) I guess an option would be to create and open source an intermediate daemon application to run alongside my commercial app interfacing a generic query from my app with the MySQL C-library. Does anyone know if this type of thing exists already ? Apache and php... Notice that you're entering a gray area with regards to what constitutes linking and what is application i/o. If it is an opensource application but it's pretty much useless to everything but your commercial one I believe the FSF considers that to be linking even if there's no sharing of address space. -- Pelle Johansson <morth@morth.org> This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com