databases [was: Re: Ruby Active Record]

[Lynn Fredricks]

> > mySQL AB has done a thorough job of stating that any potentially 
> > commercial use, you are going to have to pay their commercial fee. 
> > This was considered very carefully in pricing Valentina.
> 
> In my case, I have a for-profit client whose product goes out 
> to non-profit clients of theirs. The MySQL licensing gets 
> pretty dicey there. I don't pretend to understand whether 
> anyone needs to buy a commercial license, what kind, and 
> who's responsible for taking care of it.

Id pass the buck to whomever writes the checks ;-)

There are a couple of places I recall where it says something like "when in
doubt, send us money".

There are a lot of cool open source projects out there - one of my favorites
is Joomla. mySQL found a profitablity formula that works for them, and they
managed to ride the popularity of open source - I cant argue with their
success.

Best regards,

Lynn Fredricks
President
Paradigma Software, Inc

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