Re: [Hampshire] Sun to Buy MySQL

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Author: Samuel Penn
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Sun to Buy MySQL

On Thu, January 17, 2008 00:24, Andy Smith wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 05:26:30PM +0000, Alex wrote:
>> It'll be good news if Sun get rid of the stupid licenses.
>
> Which licenses do you mean? Perhaps I have misunderstood, but MySQL
> is GPL.


Including the client libraries I believe, so you can't[1] use it
as a backend for non-GPL'd applications anymore. Changing them
to LGPL (or BSD) would make it more useful.


[1] Unless you pay.

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