On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 10:34 AM, David Wall <d.wall@computer.org> wrote:
> It sure sounds like if your application uses MySQL and you sell your
> software (I presume this would include online services that charge for use
> of the site and that site runs MySQL under the hood), you have to buy a
> commercial license, and you can't get around it just by not directly
> distributing MySQL and having your customer install it separately.
No, selling services that rely on mysql is not the same as selling
software that relies on mysql. It's only when you sell or distrubute
software that you have to worry about the GPL.