Comments on: FathomDB: Database as a service, in the cloud http://www.bytebot.net/blog/archives/2009/03/02/fathomdb-database-as-a-service-in-the-cloud A permanent record for what's interesting today - this is my live journal Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:35:48 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: byte http://www.bytebot.net/blog/archives/2009/03/02/fathomdb-database-as-a-service-in-the-cloud/comment-page-1#comment-137917 byte Tue, 03 Mar 2009 08:38:59 +0000 http://www.bytebot.net/blog/?p=1360#comment-137917 Hi Mark! If you make a change to MySQL, and selling it on your grid, or on EC2, I don't see why you should be publishing your code or changes under the GPL. I believe that you only need to publish the source changes, when you start distributing binaries. Which you won't be doing. You'll be selling a service, access to the binaries (via a connector, even). That's my interpretation of it. IANAL though. -c Hi Mark!

If you make a change to MySQL, and selling it on your grid, or on EC2, I don’t see why you should be publishing your code or changes under the GPL.

I believe that you only need to publish the source changes, when you start distributing binaries. Which you won’t be doing. You’ll be selling a service, access to the binaries (via a connector, even).

That’s my interpretation of it. IANAL though.

-c

]]> By: Mark Callaghan http://www.bytebot.net/blog/archives/2009/03/02/fathomdb-database-as-a-service-in-the-cloud/comment-page-1#comment-137915 Mark Callaghan Mon, 02 Mar 2009 14:40:46 +0000 http://www.bytebot.net/blog/?p=1360#comment-137915 How does the GPL apply for database as a service? Do I have to publish my code or changes to MySQL if I am selling hosted MySQL on my private grid? Or on EC2? How does the GPL apply for database as a service? Do I have to publish my code or changes to MySQL if I am selling hosted MySQL on my private grid? Or on EC2?

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