Re: About GPL and proprietary software
От | Robert Treat |
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Тема | Re: About GPL and proprietary software |
Дата | |
Msg-id | 1064427797.17820.2059.camel@camel обсуждение исходный текст |
Ответ на | Re: About GPL and proprietary software (Jan Wieck <JanWieck@Yahoo.com>) |
Список | pgsql-general |
On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 13:50, Jan Wieck wrote: > > > Robert Treat wrote: > > On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 17:49, Christopher Browne wrote: > >> It would be most interesting if the makers of other GPLed software > >> such as Linux were to apply the same rule themselves. > >> > >> That way, for MySQL to be distributed with Linux, MySQL AB might be > >> required to pay $450/box to Linus for licenses. Wouldn't _that_ be > >> ironic? > > > > except that (gnu)linux is gpl'd, so they both fall under the > > non-commercial license. > > except that MySQL uses dual-licensing. The commercial license for MySQL > (the one you need to distribute your proprietary code) is _not_ GPL. > and? sure, if mysql released a version of its database that somehow was so tightly integrated into the kernel that the two had to be shipped together, a dual license from linus would force them to pay money if they didn't want to gpl their product. but rather than this being some way of "sticking it to them", i'd bet they'd be happy that they actually have they option to keep their product closed and would happily fork over the money. Robert Treat -- Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL
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