[Asterisk-biz] Small / embedded system recommendations

[trixter aka Bret McDanel]

On Mon, 2005-12-12 at 09:24 +0100, Ron Arts wrote:
> 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
its not linking if you write a php script that accesses mysql,
especially if you go through odbc first :P  MySQL claims in vioaltion of
section 7 that they can put these extra restrictions upon you.

If you get the gpled version of mysql all the gpl rules are in place and
no more.  They cant legally enforce some of what they claim they can
because to do so violates the very license they issue with (the gpl).

And that was my point.  There is a big difference between linking to
mysql and accessing it as a database backend.  And linking is even a
term of some questionable enforcement but that is a whole different
story.


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