MySql Load balancing Solutions?

[Nick Pavlica]

Oliver,
  Please contact MySql for verification/clarification like I did.  The
MySql Rep. explained to me that by installing the database on more
that one computer, even if it is for you own use, it is considered a
distributed piece of software and should be licenced.  Obviously if
you are replicating or clustering you are going to have more than one
server running the database and should licence the software.  If this
truly isn't the case, I would like to have it cleared up with MySql. 
The reps info is as follows:

Rena Dosono
Inside Sales Executive
MySQL, Inc. www.mysql.com
Tel: 206-824-4356
Email: rena at mysql.com

You may want to talk to another Rep to get an additional take.

--Nick


On Fri, 4 Feb 2005 13:04:57 +0100 (CET), Oliver Fromme
<olli at lurza.secnetix.de> wrote:
> Nick Pavlica <linicks at gmail.com> wrote:
>  > [...]
>  > > Uh --- MySQL Cluster is a standard part of 4.1.9.  You just have to
>  > > install the mysql41-server port WITH_NDB=yes, which gets you a bunch
>  > > of extra executables, mostly in /usr/local/libexec, including ndb_mgmd
>  > > and ndbd.  See: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/ndbcluster.html
>  >
>  > Yes it's part of 4.19, but if your software is not licenced under the
>  > GPL you must buy a licence for the MySql servers ($595/server), and
>  > another licence for MySql Cluster($5,000/CPU).
> 
> That only applies if you are redistributing mysql.  If
> you are only _using_ it, then it doesn't matter at all,
> and your other software doesn't have to be GPL.
> 
> Specifically, www.mysql.com says [1]:
> 
> "Free use for those who never copy, modify or distribute.
> As long as you never distribute the MySQL Software in any
> way, you are free to use it for powering your application,
> irrespective of whether your application is under GPL
> license or not."
> 
> That's as clear as it can get.  :-)
> 
> Best regards
>    Oliver
> 
> [1]:
> http://www.mysql.com/company/legal/licensing/opensource-license.html
> 
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