Re: Response from MySql AB (Re: Humor me: Postgresql vs.

From: "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org>
To: Kaarel <kaarel(at)future(dot)ee>
Cc: John Wells <jb(at)sourceillustrated(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Response from MySql AB (Re: Humor me: Postgresql vs.
Date: 2003-10-09 14:58:33
Message-ID: 20031009115806.N28590@ganymede.hub.org
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my personal question is how well any of this would even stand up in a
court of law, or how would you enforce it?

On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, Kaarel wrote:

>
> >http://www.mysql.com/products/licensing-examples.html.
> >
> >
> Well this is very interesting indeed. Beat that:
>
> "You need a license if you sell a product designed specifically for use
> with MySQL or that requires the MySQL server to function at all. This is
> true whether or not you provide MySQL for your client as part of your
> product distribution."
>
> So whatever compiled program or script you sell, if it works only with
> MySQL (say you want to sell a shell script that checks if a row has been
> added to a MySQL table), you need a license. Then a question arises
> though, when I make my script to work with MySQL AND PostgreSQL too,
> does this make the above statement not valid in my case?
>
> Kaarel
>
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