* Chad (chadzakary@hotmail.com) wrote:
> course the product you own is called "MySQL". Do MySQL or any MySQL
> customers need a commercial license for BDB? I think not. MySQL does
> not as all its code is open source. As for MySQL customers, unless they
> are making direct API calls into BDB (which most don't) I don't think
> they are categorized as BDB Api users and so can keep their code
> proprietary without having to answer to Sleepycat/Oracle for a
> commercial license.
This doesn't quite work, I don't think. The license the commercial
MySQL customer gets isn't GPL, it's something else. Whatever that
'something else' is may be incompatible with the BDB license, esp. if
they license it under the GPL for future releases or something. This
means MySQL can't distribute (sell) that code under a GPL-incompatible
license.
Enjoy,
Stephen