The MySQL question.

[Thomas Zehetbauer]

On Don, 2004-09-09 at 22:19 -0500, Chris Adams wrote:
> The problem with that is that some of the things that link against the
> library are under licenses that are not GPL compatible (like PHP), so
> with the newer versions of MySQL, you end up building something that
> can't be distributed.

MySQL has been made aware of this problem and provided the FLOSS
exception:
http://www.mysql.com/company/legal/licensing/foss-exception.html

Not to mention that numerous other distributions already include
MySQL-4: Rock Linux, Slackware, Debian, Gentoo,...

Tom

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