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El Sáb 08 Oct 2005 18:11, felix@xxxxxxxxxxx escribió:
> On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 10:31:30AM -0500, Scott Marlowe wrote:
> 
> > What it comes down to is this.  MySQL is dual licensed.  You can use
> > the GPL version, or the commercial version.  In order to sell the
> > commercially licensed version, MySQL must have the rights to all the
> > code in their base.  So, in order for MySQL to sell a commercail
> > version of MySQL with innodb support, they have to pay innobase a
> > bit to include it, or rip it out.
> 
> I don't understand.  If both MySQL and Innodb are GPL licensed,
> commercial or not should make no difference, and they can add all the
> GPL changes they want o the last Innodb GPL release.
> 
> What am I missing?

They can't enforce a commercial licence over a GPL aplication.

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