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[Timothy Boyden]

First off IANAL. Generally speaking this is not true unless you license
your application with an Open-Source license that has that provision.
Your application itself can be licensed in any way you want, but if you
distribute it commercially, you will probably have to purchase a
commercial license for PHP and MySQL. You as the author have the sole
copyright to the code (or if your work contract specifies, your company
does) and therefore you (or your company) decide how it is licensed and
ultimately whether or not the source code can be requested. Just because
you use Open-Source software doesn't mean your application has to be,
but by using Open-Source code in your application you do need to adbide
by the associated applications' distribution licensing terms if you plan
to package it in with your application. For instance Oracle makes use of
a lot of Open-Source software in their apps, but you can't get their
source code. Same with Sun.

-Tim

-----Original Message-----
From: talk-bounces at lists.nyphp.org [mailto:talk-bounces at lists.nyphp.org]
On Behalf Of Brian Dailey
Sent: Friday, November 10, 2006 3:45 PM
To: NYPHP Talk
Subject: [nycphp-talk] MySQL GPL License

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."

 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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