Re: Will Open Source be forced to go Proprietary

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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