Re: Some free utilities for Java, with Hebrew support.

nebulous99@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Or are you referring to how they "cleverly" GPL'd instead of LGPL'd a
client library so apps that use it to connect to a database will have
to be open sourced or pay?

Yes.

The obvious thing to do then is to use
another SQL client library, and perhaps still use MySQL server-side.

Do you know any ?

In short, it doesn't seem like much of a business model for MySQL. A
closed source derivative of the MySQL DBMS that costs money is likely
to be outcompeted by vanilla MySQL.

I don't even know if the commercial license allows modifications.

> Use without redistribution is
free. And the client library surely has lots of alternatives that can
be used in a closed-source client program.

Links please.

Arne



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