Re: [android-developers] Re: Avoiding GPL

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On 6/25/10 04:55 , Andy Savage wrote:
> I forgot to say in my previous post.
>
> In response to the person talking about MySQL. I believe this is
> quite different as MySQL is a completely self contained database
> system that other applications communicate with. As in, it's a
> completely GPL package, rather than a part of another application.
>
> If you actually incorporated the MySQL code within your application
> I believe it would break GPL (presuming your application was closed
> source). I am not sure how this applies to the MySQL libraries that
> are setup to use mysql say from PHP.
>

This is correct, and I was referring to MySQL. The difference stays in
that "incorporating" - as you said, if the two apps were still
considered as two separate, collaborating apps it would be fine.

On 6/25/10 09:39 , Anton Persson wrote:
> Not entirely true. Yes; a LOT of non-FLOSS (closed source) apps use
MySQL.. But they do that by buying the non-FLOSS-licenses that MySQL
_sell_.
> MySQL allows you to use MySQL with the GPL license as long as YOUR
application is also using GPL. That is their idea, and that's why many
prefer PostgreSQL. So, if you are using MySQL with the GPL license you
are doing something MySQL doesn't want you to do.

This is COMPLETELY incorrect. Corporates buy the paid license of MySQL
because of support and indemnification. The GPL license CLEARLY says
that a GPL application can be used without applying the virality when
it runs in a separate process and is used by connecting with a socket
(or other ways, such as clear API access points - otherwise,
everything using Linux should be GPL as well, and clearly it isn't).

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