licensing implications

[Tom Holroyd]

On Thu, 2008-03-06 at 14:06 -0800, Don Russell wrote:
> IANAL... 
> 
> If a company has a commercial software product using some proprietary
> database, and they want to switch to using MySQL, does the GPL license
> allow them to continue to sell their product just as they did before,
> or does GPL then mean their entire product has to fall under GPL?
> 


no, the gpl does not mean their whole product has to be gpl. you can use
mysql---people already have it.

If you make _changes_ to MySQL that's a different story.

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