mysql 4.x and fedoracore2
Paul Howarth
paul at city-fan.org
Wed Oct 27 16:29:08 UTC 2004
Birju Prajapati wrote:
> OK...what I dont get is that there are so many websites that profit from
> MySQL running things other than PHP (where there is an 'optional GPL
> Licence').
An exception has to be made for PHP because the PHP license is not GPL-compatible.
> So are these companies 'distributing binaries'?
No, they're not. They're running an application and not necessarily
distributing that application to anyone else.
> Will they have to reveal their source?
No.
> Can HTML be defined as a binary??!!
No. It's not linked to the MySQL database.
> If the website has a Java applet, this is a binary, right?
It's a binary but it's not linked to the MySQL libraries so it doesn't need to
be GPL.
Paul.
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