MySql used for wordpress hosting only - is that allowed without licence?

Question

Hello,

We develop a web app in postgreSQL. For our blog which runs on the business web site, we want to run it on wordpress.

Are we able to install the free version of mySQL and run the blog with it or do we require a commercial licence?

Our web-app has nothing to do with mySQL.

Thanks

Answer 1

Yes. MySQL is GPL (link below) - you can use it any which way you like. The only requirement is that if you modify the MySQL server code and distribute the binary built from the modified code, then you need to release your code as GPL too.

From what you are describing here, you are simply going to use MySQL as a backend for an online service. You can do this as many times as you like, with as many instances of MySQL as you like. Since you are not distributing binaries of a modified MySQL version, you are not obligated to do anything as far as the MySQL license is concerned.

In use by MySQL is GPL 2.0: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html