Matthew Palmer <mpalmer@debian.org> [2003:10:10:22:25:34+1000] scribed: > On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 08:10:24PM -0500, Michael D Schleif wrote: > > As I commented in response to David, I had always assumed that, so long > > as we do not modify source code, GPL allows distribution of this sort. > > Once I read the MySQL licensing page, I have doubts. > > Eh? Whether you've modified the code or not, the GPL requires you to > fulfill all of it's requirements. One of those is that people you > distribute to can get the source (either from you or via some other offer). > > If your application links to a GPL'd library (and the new MySQL client > library is GPL'd, so you're stuck) you are required (by the FSF's > interpretation of the GPL, at any rate) to GPL your program, which means > handing over the source. > > > We want to do the right thing. This is *NOT* a matter of whether or not > > we can get away without paying for software! > > Whelp, then, in that case, just buy a MySQL licence, get a licence for > whatever other GPL'd software you link to (not much in the PHP/Apache/MySQL > combo), and live happily in the night... Just what is meant by `link(s) to'? In the programming sense, whereby our code directly calls library objects, such as in dynamically/statically linked binaries? Or, as in our case, where said libraries are called indirectly, and referentially, via SQL calls made by PHP code? Please, bear with me, because I am in unfamiliar water, and I want to do what is right. Nevertheless, I do want to understand the rules, and not pay by extortion, as per other popular licensing models ;> -- Best Regards, mds mds resource 877.596.8237 - Dare to fix things before they break . . . - Our capacity for understanding is inversely proportional to how much we think we know. The more I know, the more I know I don't know . . . --
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