Re: [Hampshire] Sun to Buy MySQL

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Author: Andy Smith
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To: hampshire
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Sun to Buy MySQL

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Hi,

On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 08:41:08AM -0000, Samuel Penn wrote:
>
> 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.


OK so for the original message to be understood one has to be of the
opinion that GPL is a "stupid license." That's all I wanted
clarified.

Cheers,
Andy