[OT] open-source license issues

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Daniel Gibson" <metalcaedes at gmail.com> wrote in message 
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> Am 11.04.2011 17:40, schrieb Kagamin:
>> Kagamin Wrote:
>>
>>> spir Wrote:
>>>
>>>> There is a point I don't understand: if I'm right, LGPL as well as all 
>>>> other
>>>> "open source", not strictly free-software, licenses allow using 
>>>> licensed
>>>> software even for "privative" (proprietary) work. But they wouldn't 
>>>> allow using
>>>> software for work licensed under other open-source licenses like the 
>>>> Boost license?
>>>> Where's the bug?
>>>
>>> They can be used, but they can't become proprietary or Boost licensed.
>>
>> I also wander, what people plan to do with libmysql? It's GPL.
>
> Doesn't mysql even have some retarded restriction like "it's GPL but may
> not be used for commercial purposes so buy mysql if you wanna use it to
> make money"?
>
> Maybe someone has already reimplemented a mysql-client under a more free
> license?
>

PostgreSQL? ;)