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RE: [stellation-res] MySQL news: [Fwd: Re: The license change on ConnectorJ]
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> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: stellation-res-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >[mailto:stellation-res-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Jim Wright -
> >IBM Research
> >Sent: November 3, 2002 1:40 PM
> >To: stellation-res@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >Subject: RE: [stellation-res] MySQL news: [Fwd: Re: The license change
> >on ConnectorJ]
> >
> >
> >At 11:18 AM 11/3/2002, Jonathan Gossage wrote:
> >>I thought there must be some way since MySQL has allowed my company to
> >>redistribute MySQL with a commercial product.
> >
> >Jonathan,
> >
> >Last night, I checked out mysql.org (which redirects immediately to
> >mysql.com, btw).
> >http://www.mysql.com/support/arrangements.html is their initial page on
> >licensing issues.
> >
> >As noted on the page, they love selling commercial licenses (for very
> >understandable reasons).
> >The commercial licenses are definitely non-GPL.
> >Are you sure your company isn't licensing MySQL commercially?
> >
> >Regards,
> >Jim
> >
As I understand it we do not have a commercial license. As I understand it -
I was not involved in the discussions, we asked them if it was possible to
ship MySQL with our product and they said "go ahead". It puzzled me somewhat
but I was not going to argue with the situation.
Regards
Jonathan
Personal Email
jgossage@xxxxxxxx
Business Email
jonathan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
