RE: MySQL in the future?

Jacques,

        Based on what Matt sent, I'd say your in violation of their license. You've distributed it internally.

Dick Goulet
Senior Oracle DBA
Oracle Certified 8i DBA

-----Original Message-----
Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 4:45 PM
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Thank you for the research.
When they say "Distribution for MySQL would mean more than one "copy" installed in a production environment", by production environment, they must mean a business. For example I can use MySQL on my home computer to keep track of my record collection, and I can also recreate the same database on my wife's computer so that she can keep track of her CDs, all for free.
(I don't expect you to answer that! If I want to know for sure I can always ask MYSQL.)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matthew Zito [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> I figured the time had come to stop speculating about MySQL's
> licensing
> policy and get the answer straight from the horse's mouth, as it were.
> So I contacted MySQL and posed a couple of scenarios to them.
> Here's my
> questions and their responses (my stuff is the quoted part):
>
> "
> > in all of these examples, a non-GPLed application is being
> described:
> >
> > 1) A web-based application for an internal or external audience
> > running with mysql as the backend only?
>
> If it is a web-based application that will be created and
> distributed, a
> license is required. If it is an internally built and internally used
> application running on one server, a commercial license is
> not required
> (more then one installation requires a license for each - it will be
> considered internal distribution).
> >
> > 2) A compiled win32 application installed on employee desktops
> > that
> > connects to a centralized mysql database for running queries?
>
> As long as the database is not installed on each individual machine,
> only one license is required (unless it is an internally built
> application running on one server - it could be used for free).
>
>
> >
> > 3) A compiled win32 application that installs mysql
> locally on the
> > user's machine?
>
> A license would be required for each installation, it would be
> considered internal distribution.
> >
> > 4) A web-based application where mysql has been
> "distributed" to a
> > number of database servers and is running on those database
> > servers?
> >
> > The confusion seems to center around the word
> "distribute". What
> > constitutes distribution of MySQL? Thanks very much for your
> > help.
>
> Distribution for MySQL would mean more than one "copy" installed in a
> production environment, either internally or externally.
>
> Also note that if an end user used MySQL with a 3rd party commercial
> application, a non-GPL commercial license of MySQL is required.
> "
>
> So, that clears some things up for me, but this licensing policy does
> seem unnecessarily confusing.

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