| From: | Michael Meskes <meskes(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
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| To: | Ron Johnson <ron(dot)l(dot)johnson(at)cox(dot)net> |
| Cc: | PgSQL General ML <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: About GPL and proprietary software |
| Date: | 2003-08-31 19:57:41 |
| Message-ID: | 20030831195741.GA27640@feivel.fam-meskes.de |
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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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