[Asterisk-biz] Small / embedded system recommendations

Ron Arts ron.arts at neonova.nl
Mon Dec 12 01:24:26 MST 2005


trixter aka Bret McDanel wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-12-12 at 08:24 +0100, Ron Arts wrote:
> 
>>You probably have taken care of this already, but just in case:
>>
>>Are you aware that if you distribute MySQL within a commercial
>>product, you require a commercial MySQL license for each box?
>>
> 
> lies! - by mysql
> 
> Its GPLed they are not allowed under the gpl to make you pay for a
> commercial license of GPLed code and still have it GPLed.  They do say
> this yes, but they have no legal right under the gpl to enforce it.
> 

Yes, that goes without saying. I was not clear enough. I meant: a closed
source commercial product. If you link your product with MySQL libraries,
it will automagically become GPL, because the mysql libraries are GPL'ed.

In which case you will have to provide sourcecode for your product.

Ron

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