commercial application development

[David Johnson]

On Wednesday 04 June 2003 08:13 pm, Sujita Purushothaman wrote:

> If you use MySQL to develop a closed-source application you have to
> buy the commercial license. If you use the GPLed MySQL then you have
> to release your application under the GPL.

Not so fast. The original question involved perl, so there would be no 
linking involved. This is a matter of use, not derivation. At the very 
most, it's a matter of runtime linkage, which even the FSF says is 
beyond its right to regulate.

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