Re: Humor me: Postgresql vs. MySql (esp. licensing) - Mailing list pgsql-general

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Oliver Elphick [mailto:olly@lfix.co.uk]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2003 3:10 PM
> To: Vivek Khera
> Cc: PostgreSQL general list
> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Humor me: Postgresql vs. MySql (esp. licensing)
>
>
> On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 20:28, Vivek Khera wrote:
> > >>>>> "OE" == Oliver Elphick <olly@lfix.co.uk> writes:
> >
> > OE> But as far as Debian is concerned, paragraph 1 applies:
> >
> > OE> 1. Free use for those who are 100% GPL
> >
> > [[ ... ]]
> >
> > OE> That makes it free under the Debian Free Software
> Guidelines, so I
> > OE> have no grounds for requesting its removal. :-(
> >
> > So if I build and sell an appliance (hardware+software) based on
> > debian and using the 'free' collection of software,
> suddenly I'm not
> > in compliance with their license.  Sounds like a time-bomb
> waiting to
> > explode.
>
> It's licensed under the GPL, which means that you can indeed
> sell it, SO LONG AS you make your own source code available
> to your customer under the GPL or a compatible licence.
> Nothing in the GPL stops you demanding money for the
> software; what it requires is that you make your source code
> available.

Then who's going to pay for it?

> It's whole purpose is to force the freeing of
> source code; it is not much concerned with money.  For
> example, I remember years ago installing a DG Aviion
> operating system upgrade, where I found that the compiler was
> gcc, with the GPL prominently attached.  And every
> embedded-Linux device is in the same situation.
>
> MySQL's licence does not require you to buy a licence for
> _any_ commercial use, but only for commercial use where you
> do not release your source code under a GPL-compatible licence.
>
> There seems to be an awful lot of confusion about the GPL.
> Maybe Microsoft's campaign has been bearing fruit in unlikely
> quarters...

The reason that there is a lot of confusion is that the license
conditions are extremely confusing.

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