Be Cautious About MySQL Licensing

[Stephen Barncard]

Ruslan,
Understood. That is a perfect use for Valentina or Chipp's product - 
as an imbedded database. I wasn't questioning that.

But many others like myself are making custom front ends that use a 
database to share information among users on a network, or just a 
great way to deal with data, even for one user. By using an ISP based 
database, and not setting up a server myself, I'm able to concentrate 
on the application, and not deal with setup, licensing, backups, 
redundant power, a fast connection, and maintenance. That is what I 
was referring to.

One certainly doesn't have to pay a license if one make an app that 
utilizes MySQL but doesn't imbed it in the product. With people 
setting up blogs everyday, mainstream users are becoming quite 
familiar with SQL databases. It not just for geeks anymore.

sqb

At 10:46 AM +0300 5/15/05, Ruslan Zasukhin wrote:
>
>Because we talk here about Application Developers,
>Which develop Applications such as Games, Accounting, Emailers, ..
>And distribute them on CD/DVD to thousands of users.
>
>--
>Best regards,
>
>Ruslan Zasukhin