MySQL 4

[Kyrre Ness Sjobak]

tor, 07.10.2004 kl. 16.49 skrev Ken Snider:
> Chris Adams wrote:
> 
> > We use MySQL in a web-hosting environment.  There's no way we'll upgrade to
> > anything later than 3.23, as any customer writing a program to talk to the
> > database would have to be aware that their code would fall under the GPL if
> > they distribute it.  When we decide to make a change, it will probably be
> > to PostgreSQL or something else, not MySQL 4.0 or later.
> 
> Just one small clarification.
> 
> You can still connect to MySQL via a Unix Socket or TCP without worrying about 
> the GPL-ness of the libraries - this only affects *compiled* code that links 
> against libmysql.
> 
> This is one of the reasons a separate package with the 3.x mysql libs might 
> make sense from a linking standpoint, but I'd bet there'd be an issue with 
> using them against a 4.x MySQL.
> 
> -- 
> Ken Snider

*trying to be funny*
GPL Internet Explorer! It talks to GPL servers!