Hi all,<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 19 January 2012 08:37, Richard Vowles <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:richard@developers-inc.co.nz">richard@developers-inc.co.nz</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im"><div><br></div></div>I think the Postgres crowd would disagree with you there :-) Remember MySQL being GPL means you can't ship it with your app - unless you open source your app or pay for MySQL. Both Firebird and Postgres are the only two "main" fully open source databases. <span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br clear="all">
<div><br></div></font></span></blockquote></div><br><div>From my understanding, you can still ship your app as closed source so long as it uses MySQL as a "back-end" service and not as an embedded database and that you don't bundle your application including MySQL. This means you need to distribute MySQL as a separate install (with its full GPL license) from your own application.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Someone correct me if I am wrong.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Colin</div>