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libmysql is GPL licensed as well.


MySQL's own licensing page states that a license is needed for software that has MySQL distributed as a part of it.

Even if they DID need a license you are out of line to suggest they are automatically infringing and didn't just purchase the commercial license.


> Even if they DID need a license you are out of line to suggest they are automatically infringing and didn't just purchase the commercial license.

Well. You do need a license. No question about that. I did not say they are infringing the license, I was saying that unless they bought a commercial license for it they would be. Maybe bad wording on my part but when I read that article the security implications did not nearly strike me as much as the fact that the game has to ship libmysql.

I find that much more surprising than the fact that it uses a world writable MySQL database for the editor support.




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