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

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: About GPL and proprietary software
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.44.0308312128360.1119-100000@peter.localdomain
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In response to About GPL and proprietary software  (Kaarel <kaarel@future.ee>)
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Kaarel writes:

> I don't feel very confident when it comes to software licenses. But
> there are some cases I would like to make myself clear. What I am
> particulary interested in is when does GPL license become restrictive?
> For example say a company has a proprietary software product that only
> works with MySQL and no other database system. Are the following cases
> legal?

That depends on whether the MySQL client library is LGPL (up to version 3)
or GPL (from version 4 on).  But a PostgreSQL forum is probably an
entirely inappropriate place to discuss this.

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Peter Eisentraut   peter_e@gmx.net


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