We have always wanted to use the GPL. And lately our own business has become profitable enough that we could start thinking about this. But it still was a big financial risk. Since VA and Progress was willing to help us solve those financial risks we could do this sooner than we would have otherwise. But we have not got any more money than it takes to cover our costs for a number of months. The idea is that we shall use this money to build a better company based on a new business model.
So we will still sell Licenses with a different copyright to customers who want it. The definite case when you always need a license is when you want to embed MySQL code in your code. And of course we will continue to sell support.
If you liked our license change please show it by buying some support!
Yes it is a error. I needed some sleep when I wrote that. I guess that there still exists other info that still is wrong. It will be fixed eventually but we need to cat up on our mail and sleep first.
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We have always wanted to use the GPL. And lately our own business has become profitable enough that we could start thinking about this. But it still was a big financial risk. Since VA and Progress was willing to help us solve those financial risks we could do this sooner than we would have otherwise. But we have not got any more money than it takes to cover our costs for a number of months. The idea is that we shall use this money to build a better company based on a new business model.
So we will still sell Licenses with a different copyright to customers who want it. The definite case when you always need a license is when you want to embed MySQL code in your code. And of course we will continue to sell support.
If you liked our license change please show it by buying some support!
/David
Yes it is a error. I needed some sleep when I wrote that. I guess that there still exists other info that still is wrong. It will be fixed eventually but we need to cat up on our mail and sleep first.
/David