TMySqlXXConnection legal question

[xinyiman]

If I use the oject TMySqlXXConnection to create a commercial application, I pay for the license to mysql?

[Loesje]

You should ask the developers of mysql if you have to pay for it, Lazarus and Free Pascal have nothing to do with that?

[xinyiman]

I know but I was hoping that the makers of the object in question to tell me if I had made with mysql libraries or have used sockets. Why in the latter case it should be possible not to pay!

[Leledumbo]

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If I use the oject TMySqlXXConnection to create a commercial application, I pay for the license to mysql?

Starting from MySQL 5.0, yes. MySQL splits its development into community and enterprise edition, the former may only be used if you're creating open source apps.

Why in the latter case it should be possible not to pay!

Which case? Used sockets? If yes, then the answer would be because sockets are implemented in OS libraries and it's allowed (to the best of my knowledge, no OS forces you to pay because you're using its socket API) to be used in commercial apps.

[xinyiman]

Thank you