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Andreas Tscharner wrote: > I thought they addressed their licensing issues with MySQL5 ?! (It looks > like it's GPL (only had a short look, of course)) > Yeah that's the problem - 3.23 was LGPL, and free to use. We can't use anything newer than that without making everything GPL. cvsapi, etc. are LGPL for a reason - so that 3rd parties can use it to add value without having to GPL their own code (march hare use this for some elements of Suite and other things that are done for customers under contract). I go to some lengths to make sure that the GPL parts of cvsnt and the LGPL parts are logically separate so there's no possibility of violating any licenses. The alternative is to purchase a mysql license for every copy of cvsnt/evs. That's rather impractical - it's about $300 a copy... more expensive than the entire suite, even if you limited it to suite customers it would cost a fortune.. if you factor in cvsnt downloads it starts to cost something like the GDP of a small south american country! Tony