Back-in-the-days MySQL had the view of GPL that if your application strictly required MySQL database, the GPL license would extend to it. Even if the app would

Back-in-the-days MySQL had the view of GPL that if your application strictly required MySQL database, the GPL license would extend to it. Even if the app would only connected to the database over network. ”A license is required if [...] You have a commercial application that ONLY works with MySQL and ships the application with the MySQL server. This is because we view this as linking even if it is done over the network.”[1] Not sure if they ever actually enforced this rule. I wrote this just to point out that different companies can view these licenses differently. If company chooses AGPL, they clearly want to block certain use cases. I would be cautious when trying to dance around the limitations. [1] http://ww2.cs.lamar.edu/doc/mysql/manual_Licensing_and_Support.html http://ww2.cs.lamar.edu/doc/mysql/manual_Licensing_and_Suppo...