hmm there must be some way of licensing something like a database so that its 100% open source and free as a server but derivative works not
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Replying to @gregyoung
@gregyoung what's wrong with GPL? Sort of worked for MySQL

Jul 12, 2013 · 2:49 PM UTC

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Replying to @stilkov
@stilkov we have considered GPL. The issue is in making sure that your code that uses libraries is a "separate work"
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@gregyoung So you put the client libs (if there are any) under LGPL, right? Again, what MySQL did
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