NYCPHP Meetup

[Tom Melendez]

On 11/10/06, Ajai Khattri <ajai at bitblit.net> wrote:
> 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?
No, because you haven't "distributed" anything.  Also, since that site
exists for the purpose of migrating people from MySQL to Oracle, I'm
sure they're trying to introduce a little FUD themselves.

>
> Only if your application code is open source - the quote talks about
> having to provide *MySQL* source.
>
> The rest sounds like anti-MySQL FUD...
>
>
>
> --
> Aj. (ajai at bitblit.net)
> Systems Administrator / Developer
>
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