The MySQL question.

[Joe Orton]

On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 11:18:14AM +0200, Thomas Zehetbauer wrote:
> Fedora has refused to ship any update since MySQL AB has changed their
> license to be either GPL with a FOSS exception for PHP and the like or
> commercial. This seems to be a personal issue for the Fedora steering
> committee and I hope they will see the light once this causes a fork.

Please, there is no conspiracy, just developers trying to do the right
thing.  Our legal team reviewed the FLOSS exception and found some
problems with it: they are working directly with MySQL to resolve this.

joe