Re: About GPL and proprietary software

On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 13:50, Jan Wieck wrote:
>
>
> Robert Treat wrote:
> > On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 17:49, Christopher Browne wrote:
> >> It would be most interesting if the makers of other GPLed software
> >> such as Linux were to apply the same rule themselves.
> >>
> >> That way, for MySQL to be distributed with Linux, MySQL AB might be
> >> required to pay $450/box to Linus for licenses. Wouldn't _that_ be
> >> ironic?
> >
> > except that (gnu)linux is gpl'd, so they both fall under the
> > non-commercial license.
>
> except that MySQL uses dual-licensing. The commercial license for MySQL
> (the one you need to distribute your proprietary code) is _not_ GPL.
>

and? sure, if mysql released a version of its database that somehow was
so tightly integrated into the kernel that the two had to be shipped
together, a dual license from linus would force them to pay money if
they didn't want to gpl their product. but rather than this being some
way of "sticking it to them", i'd bet they'd be happy that they actually
have they option to keep their product closed and would happily fork
over the money.

Robert Treat
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