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[Anirudh Zala]

On Saturday 11 November 2006 02:15, Brian Dailey wrote:
> Ok, this may sound like a stupid question, but bear with me.
>
> 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."

As far as I know, there is not any licensing term that gives right to user to 
request owner of the software to provide it's source code. Because user is 
using service generated out of that software and not the software itself.

Moreover until something is under your domain/control, (i.e. no matter how 
much amount of deployment you make of your software under your control all 
over the world) you are not bound to provide any kind of source code of your 
software to anyone.

Licensing terms comes into consideration only when you THINK about 
re-distribution, selling etc. of your software, which is made of one or more 
open-source softwares. Correct me I am wrong anywhere.

Anirudh Zala

>
>  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?
>
> Help me out here. Am I understanding this correctly?
>
> More from the MySQL website:
>
> MySQL Licensing FAQ:
> http://www.mysql.com/company/legal/licensing/faq.html
>
> MySQL Open Source License:
> http://www.mysql.com/company/legal/licensing/opensource-license.html
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