[wellylug] Writing commercial apps which connect to GPL software.

Nigel Walters lizh at ihug.co.nz
Sat Mar 29 22:22:27 NZST 2003


Hi,


I wonder if anyone has an opinion.

A friend of mine has started to be interested in using open source
products. He is looking to reduce costs for his customers. He is a
technical write who also uses Visual Basic to write applications with
the Microsoft Office suite.


Now often his clients have MS Office without MS Access. Instead of
advising them to upgrade and buy Access he would like to be able to
write his application in Visual Basic and use an ODBC link to MySQL (or
another GPL'ed database)


Reading of the MySql licence page would seem to imply that he would run
into difficulties doing this !!??
(http://www.mysql.com/products/licensing.html).


I initially assured him that as he is not linking his code directly to
MySQL only indirectly and he is not changing MySQL itself he is
OK...however that is NOT what the mysql licensing
page says.


Any thoughts ?

Thanks
Nigel
 
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Nigel Walters <lizh at ihug.co.nz>


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