The Ultimate Guide to High Availability with MariaDB

Comments - Licensing in non embedded solution

12 years, 8 months ago Michael Widenius
Re: Licensing in non embedded solution [Answer]

In case 1, you are not affected by the GPL because:

  • You are not linking with GPL software.
  • Your application doesn't require MariaDB to work.

The fact that the user can use a GPL program like MariaDB with your application doesn't in any way put any restrictions or license requirements on your application.

In case 2, you are not distributing any GPL code and thus you are not affected by the GPL in any way.

Note that in many cases like this you would be probably be fine even if you would distribute the MySQL/MariaDB connectors and MariaDB with your application. See licensing FAQ for details or contact me if you need to know more.

 
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