databases [was: Re: Ruby Active Record]

[Mark Wieder]

Lynn-

Thursday, April 20, 2006, 3:52:58 PM, you wrote:

>> 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 ;-)

In that case, you'd be misunderstanding the situation. Scenario: you
write a spiffy app that goes out to hundreds of non-profit clients,
and you charge them a nominal fee for it and for support. If it relies
on MySQL for a backend server, are you responsible for getting a
commercial license or are the clients who run and maintain it? And
given that the clients are non-profits who may be entitled to a free
commercial license, would it not be counterintuitive for the developer
to pay for a commercial license rather than telling the clients to get
their own?

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-Mark Wieder
 mwieder at ahsoftware.net