Re: I want to use postresql for this app, but...

From: Andrew Sullivan <ajs(at)crankycanuck(dot)ca>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: I want to use postresql for this app, but...
Date: 2004-02-10 17:22:43
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On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 09:50:31AM -0700, scott.marlowe wrote:
> you would still be wholly bound by the GPL. I.e. all the code you write
> that connects to MySQL would therefore have to be GPL'd. I.e. it does
> nothing to fix the licensing problems that have been brought up.

I know that's what MySQL claims, but (a) I can't see any plausible
interpretation of the GPL which makes that enforcable; and (b)
assuming someone really did fork, I can't see how MySQL's reading of
the GPL would be relevant (since you'd no longer be using MySQL, but
YourSQL or whatever it was called).

A

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