From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Chris Travers <chris(at)travelamericas(dot)com> |
Cc: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Christopher Browne <cbbrowne(at)acm(dot)org>, pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Will Open Source be forced to go Proprietary |
Date: | 2004-01-10 04:57:40 |
Message-ID: | 200401100457.i0A4veZ06082@candle.pha.pa.us |
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Chris Travers wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Joshua D. Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
> > Yes I did see that. Actually from what I know of the GPL, this could very
> > well be the case.
> >
> The GPL specifically allows non-Free/Open Source components to talk to GPL'd
> applications via pipes and sockets. I am assuming here that network sockets
> are included, so there is NO copyright reason that, were the protocol
> reverse engineered that a third-party mysql driver couldn't be written. Of
> course, you could NOT use the MySQL source to do it.
But the MySQL description says:
http://www.mysql.com/products/opensource-license.html
Under the Open Source License, you must release the complete source code
for the application that is built on MySQL.
What does that mean, "built on MySQL". I think that means "depends" on
MySQL. At least I have heard that description:
http://www.edwardbear.org/serendipity/archives/1193_My_Beef_with_MySQLs_License.html
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