On 11/09/2010 06:01 PM, Andy wrote:
> MySQL is GPL'd, just like Linux is.
>
Well it is and it isn't. A couple of years ago when I was involved with
choosing DB for a (proprietary) application we could not figure MySQLs
license out. It was GPL'd but at the same time if you wanted to use it
commercially you had to pay. As far as we could tell you should not need
LGPL to make calls to a database.
We choose Postgresql based on features (MySQL did not have stored
procedures back then) so we never resolved the license "dilemma" but it
sure looked strange.
/Fredric
PS. The license cost as such would not be prohibitive but in our case we
did not want the administration that follows licenses. The application
was a industrial machine and there where several thousands already out
that that would be upgraded and a couple of hundreds a year produced.