[mythtv-users] Using Microsoft Access as a front-end to the MythTV database: HOWTO

[David Segall]

Billy Macdonald wrote:
> On 7/25/07, David Segall <david at segall.net> wrote:
>> Dave Phillips wrote:
>>> The $ signs were just a feeble protest against Microsoft's empire, but
>>> at least MySql is free for us still. (isn't it?)
>> You are right about it being off-topic but I can't resist a swipe at
>> MySQL AB. MySQL is only free for use with open source software
>> <http://www.mysql.com/company/legal/licensing/>. That means that if
>> someone is obliged to write a closed source program, for example to
>> obtain TV guide information, then users could be asked to pay for MySQL.
>> It is very unlikely that MySQL would pursue this but given the quantity
>> and quality of genuinely free database software
>> <http://database.profectus.com.au> I don't see why anyone uses MySQL.
>>
> 
> I don't feel like getting into a licensing debate, 
You just did!
but MySQL is
> released under the GPL, just as is Linux.
Unlike Linux and other GPL software which uses the LGPL for required 
libraries, MySQL uses the GPL. The JDBC and ODBC drivers are licensed 
under the GPL so MySQL can claim that any program that incorporates 
their libraries is a derived work and must therefore be open source. It 
just happens that they have a license that they will sell you if you 
cannot open source your program.
   Are you going to start
> putting dollar signs in Linux?
> 
> Billy
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