Difference between community and standard edition

Hi,

The MySQL community edition is the no cost GPL version, the MySQL
standard edition is the lowest cost ($2,000) of the paid versions.

Please point me to some documentation showing the differences between the
two.

I am developing an application for a client where the community edition
works fine and am wondering what benefit there would be to upgrade to a
paid version.

Thank you,
Joe

Joe Hesse wrote on 23.12.2010 22:19:

I am developing an application for a client where the community edition
works fine and am wondering what benefit there would be to upgrade to a
paid version.

If you distribute your application with MySQL (and your application is closed source) then you need to pay for a license because of the GPL license.

If you distribute your application _without_ MySQL I'm not sure if you need to pay for a license or not.
But if your application *only* works with MySQL, then I think(!) this falls under derivative work and requires a commercial license as well (again assuming your application is non-GPL)

Regards
Thomas

On Thu, 23 Dec 2010 22:50:31 +0100, Thomas Kellerer wrote:

Joe Hesse wrote on 23.12.2010 22:19:
I am developing an application for a client where the community edition
works fine and am wondering what benefit there would be to upgrade to a
paid version.

If you distribute your application with MySQL (and your application is
closed source) then you need to pay for a license because of the GPL
license.

If you distribute your application _without_ MySQL I'm not sure if you
need to pay for a license or not. But if your application *only* works
with MySQL, then I think(!) this falls under derivative work and
requires a commercial license as well (again assuming your application
is non-GPL)

Regards
Thomas

I only have one client for whom I am writing a web based application
using MySQL. My client has no intention of selling or giving the
application away or publishing it. I get paid for designing his DB,
writing client and server side code and installing everything on his
server. Am I OK with the community edition?

On 2010-12-23 22:19, Joe Hesse wrote:

Hi,

The MySQL community edition is the no cost GPL version, the MySQL
standard edition is the lowest cost ($2,000) of the paid versions.

Please point me to some documentation showing the differences between the
two.

According to:

http://blogs.oracle.com/mysql/2010/1...d_pricing.html

you get the workbench tool.

/Lennart

Joe Hesse <JoeHesse (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:

The MySQL community edition is the no cost GPL version, the MySQL
standard edition is the lowest cost ($2,000) of the paid versions.

Please point me to some documentation showing the differences between the
two.

Feature-wise there is no difference, except for partitioning that is
included in the binaries but you're not allowed to use it except you
have purchased Enterprise.

There are rumors that in the future Oracle will put some new features
into the Enterprise edition exclusively.

I am developing an application for a client where the community edition
works fine and am wondering what benefit there would be to upgrade to a
paid version.

The benefits are support, regular bugfix releases, additional code
(Workbench, Enterprise Backup)


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