[thelist] Database Licensing Question

[Richard Bennett]

On Wednesday 22 December 2004 01:20, Raditha Dissanayake wrote:
> >If its for a small project mSQL will do fine (and for many larger ones
> > too) without requiring any license to be paid, and AFAIK MySQL is only a
> > one-time payment of $250 per database , with unlimited users and
> > processors... doesn't seem all that unreasonable to me...
> >
> >  
>
> My understanding was this is $250 per installation. If that is incorrect
> i stand corrected.

$250 per binary of the database, if it is used in combination with an 
application that you cannot release under an OS friendly license...

Basically they are saying, if you make money from the software we share with 
you, and are not prepared to share your own work with us, then the least you 
can do is support us financially... which makes sense to me...

Richard