NYCPHP Meetup

[Ajai Khattri]

On Fri, 10 Nov 2006, Brian Dailey wrote:

> First, the quote:
> 
> "If you build an intranet application and deploy it inside your 
> organisation, your users can request the source code and legally you 
> have to give it to them. It’s not likely that they will know that you’re 
> running the GPL version of MySQL so that they have the right to request 
> it but legally you have to provide the source code upon request."
> 
>  From http://www.lamp2lapo.com/
> 
> Does this apply to ALL web-based applications (e.g., ones written in 
> PHP)? If I write a website in PHP that uses MySQL without a commercial 
> license, do I have to share the code?

Only if your application code is open source - the quote talks about 
having to provide *MySQL* source.

The rest sounds like anti-MySQL FUD...



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Aj. (ajai at bitblit.net)
Systems Administrator / Developer