Re: MySQL 4.0 license change

Oded Arbel <[email protected]> Sun, 25 Jan 2004 14:30:22 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.mobile.kannel.devel
Organization	m-Wise mobile solutions
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ביום ראשון 25 ינואר 2004, 13:41, נכתב על ידי adi:
> On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 01:21:16PM +0200, Oded Arbel wrote:
> > If OTOH you want to redistribute Kannel w/o source code (which the Kannel
> > license allows you to do), that also means you'd need to distrbute closed
> > source code that links with MySQL client code. this is specifically
> > disallowed by the GPL which means you'd need a special non-GPL license
> > from MySQL, at which point MySQL AB are allowed to require you to buy a
> > server license if they want to.
>
> Please note that current cvs version of kannel contains
> GPL code (i.e gw_uuid stuffs).

Oh, in that case the whole MySQL/Kannel GPL issue is moot. if Kannel already 
legally contains GPLed code then it sure can link against MySQL's GPLed code.

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