Re: licensing implications

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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?

Thanks
Does Red Hat ship mysql on RHEL? yes it does.
Can I sell you a CD with my software on it? yes I can, if you want to buy it. Can I include mysql on it? Yes I can, but if I don't have a licence from SUN to the contrary, I must include or offer its source code.
Can I include mysql on it? Yes I can, see previous question?
Must my software be GPL-licensed? No, it needn't, provided it's not linked with it. Read the GPL, very carefully and very slowly.

Note that I can link my software, commercial or not, with any parts of mysqld that are lgpl-licenced.

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