[DUG] MySQL Licencing

Jolyon Smith jsmith at deltics.co.nz
Fri May 1 10:46:22 NZST 2015


The answer to FAQ #6 appears to deal with this:

http://www.mysql.com/about/legal/licensing/oem/

Nutshell:  You will need to enter into a commercial licensing agreement
with Oracle and you need to contact their sales team to arrange this.

On 1 May 2015 at 10:09, Steve Peacocke <steve at peacocke.net> wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
>
> A sticky Friday question for your all.
>
> I am using MySQL (I don't want a DB vs DB discussion, just answers for
> MySQL).
>
> My application will be commercial and I will sell this without source code
> - meaning clearly I will need to purchase a licence myself.
>
> What is not clear, even after a couple of days of scouring the web for
> answers, is - WILL I NEED TO BUY A LICENCE FOR EVERY CUSTOMER?
>
> I will be distributing and installing a MySQL Server onto every computer
> that purchases my commercial software.
>
> Can someone please point me to a hard evidence website URL that clearly
> explains if I have to purchase a licence for each customer?
>
> This can be possibly, (hopefully) thousands of customers.
>
> Thanks everyone.
>
> Steve Peacocke
> Mobile: +64 220 612-611
>
>
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