Re: Post not appear on group "comp.lang.java.programmer"
Twisted wrote:
On Aug 24, 9:48 am, Lew <l...@lewscanon.com> wrote:
IANAL, so I do not know why those folks say that. As I understand GPL, if you
get MySQL under the GPL that's it - you have it for free. The key seems to be
whether your application can be considered a "derivative work" under the GPL.
As I understand the GPL, if you use or link against GPL code you need
to open source your own project or negotiate an exemption with the
copyright holder. Ordinarily the copyright is transferred to the FSF;
it sounds like MySQL is an exception and has retained it so they can
negotiate closed-source uses, which is somewhat against the spirit in
which the GPL is intended.
No. For GNU projects the copyright is transferred to the FSF. For
the >95% other projects using GPL that is not the case.
If you run a MySQL server and a generic SQL-query-using client,
however, the client can surely be closed-source (as long as you don't
use a GPL'd client library in the client; SQL is pretty standardized
so this is feasible).
The point is that the MySQL provided client libraries are GPL'ed.
Arne
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