From: Fra (frasapya.com)
Date: Fri Jul 18 2003 - 06:25:16 CDT

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>As Ralf Czekalla already wrote on the list, the slides should be up on the linux tag website at
>http://www.linuxtag.org/2003/de/conferences/material.html in a while. Kaj Arnö also was focusing the SAPDB users directly, obviously the critics which were written at the list were heard (or read:). He explained the licensing politics of MySQL. He pointed out, that it is ethically ok to
>be commercial, when the user of the db is commercial. That is was always the target of MySQL AB to be a commercial company and working for profit. But he said they do absolutely have no understandings for the people which are criticizing the new way of the licensing scheme for the new DB. People where lucky enough to get such a DB for free, but now only free software (GPL) can use the database for free. Commercial users are going to have to pay for it. ( I come back to that point later)
>
So he doesn't understand? Then I'll explain it... The problem is that we
invested our time in a project. We used that project under some
conditions, we evaluated them and decided that those conditions fit our
needs. We trusted those conditions because we trusted the good name of
SAP. Now the conditions change without any option left to us . That's
sad. That breaches the trustworthy of the project in which we invested
our time, because we invested that time given some conditions. Now those
conditions go away and new conditions come. Legal? of course! but not
serious, not worthy of SAP's name.

(Sorry my english!)

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