Re: About GPL and proprietary software - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Michael Meskes
Subject Re: About GPL and proprietary software
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Msg-id 20030831195741.GA27640@feivel.fam-meskes.de
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In response to Re: About GPL and proprietary software  (Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>)
Responses Re: About GPL and proprietary software  (Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>)
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On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 02:26:14PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> IANAL, but according to my understanding
> (1) proprietary s/w that dynamically links to "GPL" shared libraries
> has not broken the GPL.

Sure? My understanding is that it does break GPL. That's why there's an
LGPL.

But since MySQL is double licensed and GPl is just one of the two it
gets even more complicated.

Michael
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