Re: The MySQL question.

[Alan Cox <alan redhat com>]

On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 01:23:55PM +0200, Thomas Zehetbauer wrote:
> > But not yet released anything with that license, nor fixed up some of
> > the corner cases.
> 
> Not true, see http://lists.mysql.com/announce/217

Ok so 6:48am this morning they released something. Well guess what I hadn't
read the mysql list since 6:48am this morning. I guess it may well make 
FC4 then

> > > Not to mention that numerous other distributions already include
> > > MySQL-4: Rock Linux, Slackware, Debian, Gentoo,...
> > 
> > Red Hat is obliged to follow the law and its lawyers recommendations. 
> 
> What are you trying to say?  That the others are not obliged to follow
> the laws or that RedHat got bad lawyers? 

Neither of the above. A more crass way of putting it would be "The others
aren't worth sueing".

Alan