License of using MySQL Community Edition as database

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I am new to MySQL. I am impressed with good performance of MySQL.

I am reading MySQL Community Edition licensing, i.e. GNU Public License. For my understanding,

1. it is free of charge to use MySQL Community Edition in my in-house commercial usage, regardless how I use MySQL as database to store data;

2. it is free of charge to allow me to recruit a company to develop applications by any programming language and take MySQL Community Edition as database.

Am I right?

Dave Stokes-MySQL Community Team-Oracle

You are correct.

If you sell software and bundle MySQL then you will need a license. Hiring others to write code for you that uses MySQL is good.

Dave Stokes-MySQL Community Team-Oracle

You are correct.

If you sell software and bundle MySQL then you will need a license. Hiring others to write code for you that uses MySQL is good.