Re: php DBMS
| From: | Manuel Lemos | Date: | Tue, 01 Mar 2005 00:12:35 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: php DBMS | ||
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Hello,
on 02/28/2005 07:21 PM rogerk@queernet.org said the following:
You are confused. You only need to buy a commercial license if you want to distribute MySQL server itself with closed source applications. If you develop closed source applications but you do not distribute MySQL with them, you do not need to buy any licenses. -- Regards, Manuel Lemos PHP Classes - Free ready to use OOP components written in PHP http://www.phpclasses.org/ PHP Reviews - Reviews of PHP books and other products http://www.phpclasses.org/reviews/ Metastorage - Data object relational mapping layer generator http://www.meta-language.net/metastorage.htmlMySQL is free for use with applications that are themselves open source. If you're going to use it with a commercial or non-open-source application, you need to buy a commercial license.I'm wondering if there is any DBMS, like MySQL, which is (fully) implemented in php. This so you don't have to buy a MySQL database.MySQL is free...