Re: MySQL 4

[Alan Cox <alan redhat com>]

On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 09:19:06PM +0200, Thomas Zehetbauer wrote:
> > Evidentally, Legal still has some issues with the "exception clause" that 
> > MySQL AB put in to overcome the above issues.
> 
> Could you please elaborate? If your legal department has a problem with
> the GNU Public License (GPL) under which MySQL is currently available
> they probably work for the wrong company.

PHP is not GPL compatibly licensed for one so exceptions matter.

> > I'm not a lawyer.  You're not a lawyer (probably).
> 
> You are right, but I guess SuSE, Debian, Gentoo, Slackware, Rock Linux
> and some more do have lawyers and they all come with MySQL 4.

With the possible exception of SuSE they occupy the "not worth sueing"
space.