License!

[Nelson Guedes Paulo Junior]

Hi,

I've read a lot of threads in Fedora-Devel and here about the license of
Mysql 4.x and PHP. Here:

http://www.mysql.com/products/opensource-license.html

You can see about the license, and it's has a note about PHP 3.0
I've read about this note on Fedora Devel, that MySQL was trying to
license MySQL 4.x to use with PHP 4.x and I don't know if now it's okay.
I couldn't find any information about it.

I wish to use MySQL 4.x with Fedora Core 1 and PHP 4.x, may I, or may
not????

Thanks!
And sory if it's not the place for such question, I'm really confused
about that.

[]'s

[Richard Welty]

On Fri, 5 Mar 2004 15:12:46 -0300 Nelson Guedes Paulo Junior  wrote:
> I wish to use MySQL 4.x with Fedora Core 1 and PHP 4.x, may I, or may
> not????

you probably can. in particular, if your application is not for sale,
you should be free and clear.

if your application is for sale, well, things are more complicated.

richard

[Rui Miguel Silva Seabra]

On Fri, 2004-03-05 at 13:20 -0500, Richard Welty wrote:
> On Fri, 5 Mar 2004 15:12:46 -0300 Nelson Guedes Paulo Junior  wrote:
> > I wish to use MySQL 4.x with Fedora Core 1 and PHP 4.x, may I, or may
> > not????
>
> you probably can. in particular, if your application is not for sale,
> you should be free and clear.
>
> if your application is for sale, well, things are more complicated.

Please, stop spreading that lie right now.

You can charge for distributing copies of your software even when linked
with the GPL'ed libraries.

HOWEVER, never forget that you must respect the GPL distribution
requirements, which include covering the combined program with the GPL
as well.

What you CAN'T DO, is non-GPL'ed program with MySQL's GPL'ed libraries.

MySQL abuses the confusion between proprietary and commercial in their
site in order to mislead people into thinking they have to buy a special
license when a lot of times they don't need to, they just need to make
it fully Free (as in speech) Software for everyone.

Rui

[Rui Miguel Silva Seabra]

On Fri, 2004-03-05 at 15:12 -0300, Nelson Guedes Paulo Junior wrote:
> I've read a lot of threads in Fedora-Devel and here about the license
> of Mysql 4.x and PHP. Here:
>
> http://www.mysql.com/products/opensource-license.html
>
> You can see about the license, and it's has a note about PHP 3.0
> I've read about this note on Fedora Devel, that MySQL was trying to
> license MySQL 4.x to use with PHP 4.x and I don't know if now it's okay.
> I couldn't find any information about it.

Ola Nelson,

They refer to PHP's License version 3 and not to PHP.
Don't worry. I've made that confusion in the past too.

This should make it very clear for you:

[rms@roque rms]$ head -4 /usr/share/doc/php-4.3.4/LICENSE
--------------------------------------------------------------------
                  The PHP License, version 3.0
Copyright (c) 1999 - 2002 The PHP Group. All rights reserved.
--------------------------------------------------------------------

Abraços, Rui

[Nelson Guedes Paulo Junior]

On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 06:26:50PM +0000, Rui Miguel Seabra wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-03-05 at 15:12 -0300, Nelson Guedes Paulo Junior wrote:
> > I've read a lot of threads in Fedora-Devel and here about the license
> > of Mysql 4.x and PHP. Here:
> >
> > http://www.mysql.com/products/opensource-license.html
> >
> > You can see about the license, and it's has a note about PHP 3.0
> > I've read about this note on Fedora Devel, that MySQL was trying to
> > license MySQL 4.x to use with PHP 4.x and I don't know if now it's okay.
> > I couldn't find any information about it.
>
> Ola Nelson,

Ola Rui, :-)
> They refer to PHP's License version 3 and not to PHP.
> Don't worry. I've made that confusion in the past too.
>
> This should make it very clear for you:
> [rms@roque rms]$ head -4 /usr/share/doc/php-4.3.4/LICENSE
>               The PHP License, version 3.0
> Copyright (c) 1999 - 2002 The PHP Group. All rights reserved.

Humm, interresting....
Thanks for that.

But I've read that it wasn't aproved yet, and, if is now aproved, Fedora Core can contain version 4.x of Mysql?

Thanks!
[]'s
> Abraços, Rui
>
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