Is MySQL community server free for commercial use?
MySQL itself is open source and can be used as a standalone product in a commercial environment. If you’re running mySQL on a web server, you are free to do so for any purpose, commercial or not. If you run a website that uses mySQL, you won’t need to release any of your code.
Is MySQL standard free?
MySQL is free and open-source software under the terms of the GNU General Public License, and is also available under a variety of proprietary licenses.
Do you need a GPL license to use MySQL?
One possibility is using the official MySQL client library (connector), which is GPL’d. If you do this, you are statically linking your program to a GPL’d library, and thus you need to release your software under the GPL. Alternatively, you can link against a third party client library, with a different license.
Do you need to link against MySQL libraries?
You don’t necessarily have to link against MySQL libraries in order to use MySQL in your application. All you have to do is to “speak” to a MySQL server using the MySQL protocol; in which case, you are connecting to the MySQL server as a client, i.e. as a user, and then you don’t need to release your software under the GNU GPL license.
How can your program speak the MySQL protocol?
All you have to do is to “speak” to a MySQL server using the MySQL protocol; in which case, you are connecting to the MySQL server as a client, i.e. as a user, and then you don’t need to release your software under the GNU GPL license. The question is, how can your program speak the MySQL protocol?
Do you need administrator privileges to run MySQL?
When installed, MySQL does not need to be executed using a user with Administrator privileges. For a list of limitations on the use of MySQL on the Windows platform, see Section 5.7, “Windows Platform Restrictions” .