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Flávio Etrusco wrote: > Indeed, it seems they've cleared that > gpl-but-only-if-you-are-free-as-in-beer wording in their new licenses > and are now fully gpl: > http://www.mysql.com/company/legal/licensing/ > http://www.mysql.com/company/legal/licensing/opensource-license.html Desn't look like any change there - GPL + slightly dubious 'exception' as always. IMO the 'exception' is contradictory - they're saying if you license the application under an OSI license then you can use it, but it's smoke and mirrors. If you were able to do that then this would work: mysql -> BSD licensed wrapper -> Commercial application However you can't (obviously) - it has effectively GPL'd the entire application, forcing GPL conditions on anything that uses your own application even if you didn't want to. Mysql have history - they *have* sued companies. I'm not going to expose march hare to that kind of risk. > But there's a warning on the site that some versions are still under > the old license: > http://www.mysql.com/company/legal/licensing/mypl.html The old license was LGPL, which is a much more free license, which is why we're able to use it. Tony