On Thu, 2008-03-06 at 14:06 -0800, Don Russell wrote: > IANAL... > > If a company has a commercial software product using some proprietary > database, and they want to switch to using MySQL, does the GPL license > allow them to continue to sell their product just as they did before, > or does GPL then mean their entire product has to fall under GPL? > no, the gpl does not mean their whole product has to be gpl. you can use mysql---people already have it. If you make _changes_ to MySQL that's a different story. > Thanks > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Dr. Tom -- My wisdom has accumulated long like a cloud, it becomes stiller and darker. So does all wisdom which shall one day bear lightnings. Thus spoke Zarathustra. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list