[thelist] Which RDBMS?

[Chris Johnston]

On Sat, 14 Aug 2004 21:24:05 +0600, raditha dissanayake
<jabber at raditha.com> wrote:
> Hassan Schroeder wrote:
>
> thanks for the link i have actually seen it quite a few times - though i
> have not followed the discussions on the mysql mailing lists - their
> position (unless it has changed of late) is that if you make a
> commercial product that stores data in a mysql db you have to pay them
> licensing fees - this is what a mysql sales rep told me.
> 

I beliece MySQL is actually released under a dual licensing scheme -
one license, the GPL, allows for free, open source use of the
database, while the commercial license allows company to use MySQL as
part of commercial software and to include it in proprietory software.

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