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

[Stephen Judd]

On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 22:22, Nigel Walters wrote:
> 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 !!??

What difficulties, specifically? I don't see any...
 
-- 
Stephen Judd <sljudd at paradise.net.nz>


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