site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev@lists.apple.com 26 jul 2005 kl. 10.21 skrev Mark Gilbert: Or just use PostgreSQL <http://www.postgresql.org/about/licence> see, nice, friendly 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... On 26 Jul 2005, at 10:55, Pelle Johansson wrote: 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). 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. This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com