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When are you required to have a commercial MySQL license?
As you may know, MySQL has a dual-licensing model. You can get the source under the GPL version 2, or you can buy a commercial license.
I’ve recently been hearing a lot of confusion about when you have to buy a commercial license. People I’ve spoken to wrongly believe that they’re required to purchase a license if they’re going to use MySQL in anything but a not-for-profit business, for example. I don’t know how these notions get started, but they do.
So when are you required to buy a commercial license? It’s very simple: when you want to do something with MySQL that the GPL doesn’t permit.
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