Re: GPL question

Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
Tony Caduto wrote:

It's best to try and find opensource stuff with LGPL or BSD licenses which don't require you to release any source code when linking to a DLL.

Or one can buy such a license. Open source does not imply "for free" ;-)

DoDi


That's true, but not all the open source libs out there are dual licensed. There are some that provide a commercial license. MySQL is one such example. If you purchase a MySQL license it gives you ability to use all the client DLLs, otherwise you are bound by the GPL for the client libs.

Later,



Tony Caduto
AM Softwaredesign
Home of Lightning Admin for PostgreSQL and MySQL
http://www.amsoftwaredesign.com
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