[plug] Database advice - Newbie

[Onno Benschop]

On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 09:55, Craig Ringer wrote:
> MySQL is GPL, so if you're distributing the application you create
> you'll need to make the code available under the GPL.

Uhm, can someone more qualified than I please comment on this, because
to me this sounds like rubbish.

If I'm reading what you write correctly, you're saying that if I write a
piece of software that I sell, that uses MySQL (or any other engine) as
a database, I need to make my software available under the GPL?


Onno Benschop 

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