Re: Save MySQL? HA

In response to Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>:

> Chris Browne wrote:
> > DCorbit(at)connx(dot)com ("Dann Corbit") writes:
> > > (Commercial use of MySQL without paying a license fee requires that
> > > projects using the database are also GPL, IIRC).
> >
> > I know I've seen Monty say this sort of thing a lot of times, and his
> > most recent rant
> > (<http://monty-says.blogspot.com/2009/12/help-keep-internet-free.html>)
> > underlines it with his mistaken belief.
>
> I've heard that if you write a non-GPL program talking to a MySQL
> database in, say, PHP, does not require the program itself being GPL,
> only the PHP library that connects to MySQL. It's the library that
> "links" to MySQL, not your program, so your program is protected from
> GPL's viral nature.

Which makes sense if you read the license, but has never been upheld in
a court of law, thus is still on shaky legal ground.

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